Quotes About Shame

You broke the bonds and you loosed the chains, carried the cross, all my shame, all my shame, you know I believe it.

Fear makes people do cruel things, things they'll be ashamed of later

There is no shame in fear, Orgrim and Durotan. Only in letting fear prevent you from doing the right thing.

The greatest knight in all of England, fallen from glory by a single blow. What a shame." "A greater shame to dwell on it," Charles suggested. "So shut your mouth, Arthur.

I do not know how I got through without breaking down, without my heart bursting from sorrow and shame.

Her poverty was naked on the empty streets, and if no one walked abroad she felt all the more ghastly, like a wretched sinner in the sight of God.

There is absolutely no shame in living within your income, however small it may be, but there is shame if creditors are always coming to your door.

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

She was mixed--Japanese and American. Nothing. A nothing. A nobody. The 'kanji' in her last name meant female devil. She didn't even know what her real last name was because she'd dishonored the family simply be being born.

The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the "war" against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

My little ankle-strap sandals curled with embarrassment for her.

because their lack of conscience prevents them from blushing—

To read of the unrelenting coarseness and brutality of the boy's father is lowering to the spirit, as is the shame he felt at his mother's reputation for unchastity.

La loi pakistanaise permet de condamner une femme à subir un viol collectif afin d'expier la honte d'une crime commis par son frère.

YOUNG MORTIMER: Thou proud disturber of thy country's peace, Corrupter of thy king, cause of these broils, Base flatterer, yield! and were it not for shame, Shame and dishonour to a soldier's name, Upon my weapon's point here should'st thou fall, And welter in thy gore. LANCASTER: Monster of men! That, like the Greekish strumpet, train'd to arms And bloody wars so many valiant knights; Look for no other fortune, wretch, than death! King Edward is not here to buckler thee.

She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

In my time we had very few words, perhaps a hundred that we used all the time, and thirty of them were synonyms for guilt.

I believe, Eragon, that you are full of love and that you are looking for one who will reciprocate your affection. No shame exists in that.

You think sex is dirty. You have a dirty mind.

emotions are derivations of five core feelings: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and shame.

Now why [...] should I worry about what people say when my own father call me a whore?

And truth is indivisible, it shines with its own transparency and does not allow itself to be diminished by our interests or our shame.

There can be no failure if there really is a Plan. Defeated you may be, but never through any fault of your own. To bow to a cosmic will is no shame. You are not a coward; you are a martyr.