Quotes About Shame

Now she mocked and berated herself fiercely. She was mad. She, a woman of twenty, had behaved like a little twelve-year-old child. 'But I'm not a woman,' she thought. 'There are people who are ageless, and I'm one of them. I was an old woman at twelve, and even when I have white hair I'll be exactly the same in my heart as I am today. Why be ashamed of it?

I felt so ashamed with them because everything in their life was going so well and they were so sort of successful. I couldn't talk about what I wanted with them and they were always in a hurry.

A less courageous person would have felt that it was too late, they would have felt ashamed, they would think wellI don't want this, I know I shall hate it, it's all wrong, but I'm so involved now I'll have to put up with it, and I know that later on I'll keep on wishing that I'd had the nerve to say no, even at the last minute....

I felt at times, it is hard to describe this, almost mad with guilt, with a sort of general guilt about my whole life.

one often feels guilt not because one has sinned but because one has been accused!

Guilt feelings so often arise from accusations rather than from crimes.

Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed

I'm being accused of modesty, a horrible and thoroughly unnatural crime.

Você sabe que o pudor é somente o outro lado da lascívia.

solo una mentira que no se avergonzara de sí misma conseguiría tener éxito.

When I think that Kafka loved this creature, dreamed about her, I am ashamed for man and his illusions.

She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.

Comprobaréis, señora, que los conquistadores carecen de vergüenza: llegan como mendigos, se comportan como ladrones y se creen señores.

When I left the zoo and I sent my chimpanzees to the sanctuary in Florida and imagined what my chimpanzees went through for 18 years, I'm ashamed of myself.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

I do think that for a queer person to speak truthfully without shame about their own experiences is political.

I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don't feel any shame over it. It's only the opinion-makers and the 'opinion elites' who turn up their noses.

It's a shame that gays who ought to be pushing boundaries have been domesticated and tamed and turned into pets by the Progressive Left.

If you have an embarrassing story, and it's a source of shame, keeping it in just compounds the shame and turns the story into something poisonous. And if someone knows about it, then it can be used against you.

I have these beautiful children and this extraordinary family, and to think in any way shape or form that that's wrong or that there's shame in that or that there's something to hide actually turns my stomach.

A bad Tweet can cause scandal, shame, even possibly end a politician's career.

I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.