Quotes About Shame

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

And as he stood there outside the bedroom door, he could hear her sobbing, on the floor paralyzed with shame, exactly the same as he had been when it was him on the other side.

I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.

I don't speak any other languages, which I'm kind of ashamed about, actually.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn't stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our feet couldn't walk alone, that our history of pain and shame was repeated and multiplied in the flesh and blood of the brothers and sisters of other lands and skies.

My mom grew up in extreme poverty, and always spoke of it with a look of disgust. She felt pressured to fit in, and felt shame about her house, clothes, and general appearance.

For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

[To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!

He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!

I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

Then she felt shock and shame over the fact that she was thinking about coffee while her planet was being set on fire.

Passing through the utility section she considered getting herself a cup of coffee. Then she felt shock and shame over the fact that she was thinking about coffee while her planet was being set on fire. Then she poured herself a cup of coffee anyway and stepped into the Farm.

Passing through the utility section she considered getting herself a cup of coffee. Then she felt shock and shame over the fact that she was thinking about coffee while her planet was being set on fire.

You have created sexual embarrassment, repression, and shame—which has led to sexual inhibition, dysfunction, and violence. You will, as a society, always be inhibited about that over which you are embarrassed; always be dysfunctional with behaviors which have been repressed, and always act out violently in protest of being made to feel shame about that over which you know in your heart you should never have felt shame at all.

Not with shame, that's for sure. And not with guilt, and not with fear. For shame is not virtue, and guilt is not goodness, and fear is not honor. And not with lust, for lust is not passion; and not with abandon, for abandon is not freedom; and not with aggressiveness, for aggressiveness is not eagerness.