Quotes About Shame

No debe de tener miedo. Que los niños, al menos el suyo, vienen con un pan y un plan debajo del brazo, y que si uno tiene en el alma un mínimo de decencia y decoro, y algún seso en la cabeza, encuentra la manera de no arruinarles la vida y de ser un padre del que nunca tengan que avergonzarse.

No hace falta que lo diga si le da vergüenza, porque los varones somos así y la testosterona no alienta al verso.

By then I had begun to understand that my father was ashamed that others might think him ignorant, a residue from a war which, like all wars, was fought in the name of God and country to make a few men, who were already far too powerful when they started it, even more powerful. The Angel's Game

In 1654, for example, Elizabeth Drew was whipped twelve stripes (a punishment comparable to that for rape of a single woman) for naming her master's son as the father of her child. When Drew persisted in her story she was whipped an additional twenty stripes and forced to stand in public on lecture day with a paper on her forehead proclaiming herself "A SLANDERER OF MR ZEROBABELL ENDICOTT.

Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'antisémitisme devint la honte et il fut en principe éradiqué dans l'Allemagne occupée.

Being addicted to soft-porn romance novels in Ithaca, Georgia, was like filling a prescription for head lice or genital herpes. It just wasn't the kind of thing you went around bragging about, not if you were a good Southern girl, anyway, from a good Southern family.

Oh, yes, he'd spent a good portion of his day in self-pity. And now? Now he felt shame.

I don't think she liked being called a slut, I don't know why… some women are just funny like that.

Kad kažu da je nešto duga pri?a, ljudi obi?no žele re?i da je pri?a kratka, ali toliko glupa da ju se stide ispri?ati.

My name is Asher Lev... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends, my people; also, I am a mocker of ideas sacred to Christians, a blasphemous manipulator of modes and forms revered by Gentiles for two thousand years.

Then was ashamed of myself. I should be happy for what I'd been given. I hoped God hadn't noticed my lapse in appreciation.

My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases. - A Carcass

A lot of people are ashamed to talk about mental illness. To me, it's power to give people that.

I should be writing songs about happiness all day long, but a lot of my songs get inspired from that place of unworthiness and shame, which really goes with mental illness.

Gay men can sometimes feel ashamed or chastised when the messaging is 'Be out and proud!' or 'Just come out.' It's not that easy. It certainly wasn't for me.

As a boy, I felt ashamed of being Mexican. I'd say I was Hawaiian.

I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.

It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already... and I'm so greedy for other people's desire that I have to really force myself to have some shame about it and some control, neither of which come easily to me.

We don't have to be ashamed, but we are nothing, and we earn nothing but chaos.

Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping--not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from the perception of the flaw in the terrestrial scheme, by which what was good for God's birds was bad for God's gardener; but with the awful sense that he had wholly disgraced himself before he had been a year in the parish, and hence might be a burden to his great-aunt for life.

Such poor liquor do make a man's throat feel very melancholy--and is a disgrace to the name of stimmilent.

Now the people sneer at me--the very hills and sky seem to laugh at me till I blush shamefully for my folly. I have lost my respect, my good name, my standing--lost it, never to get it again.

Es preciso aclarar que este tipo de jarra, por razones inciertas, recibe en Weatherbury y en sus inmediaciones el nombre de Dios-me-perdone, acaso porque su tamaño hace que cualquier bebedor se avergüence de si mismo al ver el Fondo tras haberla vaciado

Nobody blamed Tess as she blamed herself