Quotes About Shame

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.

For the most part, it was never assumed that I was gay, and I've had people be sort of surprised that I was gay or act apologetic like they didn't know, which would just make me really uncomfortable. And I never had shame for it, but I never felt like introducing myself as, 'I'm Antoni. I'm gay. How are you?'

My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

Frankly, Indian women inherit this collective cultural unconscious - this sense of guilt, shame, and dishonour. I think Indian girls need to become shameless and a little selfish, too.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.

There is a sense of shame that comes with unemployment. I didn't become a movie star, and I was a size 14.

I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.

Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.

Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.

Have been most timid of cowards from day of birth, " replied Li Han, without shame, "and this is an inauspicious day."- "No it ain't, " said Olaf, "it ban Thursday.

Shame without repentance doesn't lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.

There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.

Without shame, without conscience.

There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.

Everything is spectacle. Everything is entertainment, whether it's shame, invasion of privacy, abuse, no matter what it is it's become almost a sporting event. It's like the new Roman Coliseum in a way.

However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.

Stalin is a shameful stain on our country's history.

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.