Quotes About Shame

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

En onmiddellijk daarop overrompelde mij de overtuiging van mijn eigen hinderlijkheid, wist ik hoe onmogelijk ik me had gemaakt, als een klein kind dat op visite is bij vreemden en op het tafelkleed kotst.

Shame is pride's cloak.

Casanova had no ordinary shame

Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it.

Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one...

No evil is intolerable but a guilty conscience.

Then the babies started comin, the old man went on. They never heard of rubbers, I reckon, or maybe they figured that that would be cheatin. One of the youngest of them girls told me one time, she was drinkin a little or she never would have told it, she said her sisters would bury them babies in widemouth Mason fruit jars.

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

Hereticorum sententias prodidisse est superasse—to have expounded the doctrines of heretics is to have overcome them, saith Hieron. Unfold them, or bring them and the word face to face, and, like Cain, they hang down their head; they are put to shame.

Some people lived with dark secrets all their lives...

There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.

Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.

But by swearing fealty ... you gave me everything." "I saw you need it." My scorn dripped. "This afternoon, by my shame?" "No, my lord. Tonight, by your fear." He sighed. "Now, perhaps, you can allow yourself a friend.

Perfection is an awful prison, which shackles the soul and chains the spirit in shame and despair.

Spiritual transformation does not result from fixing our problems. It results from turning to God in the midst of them and meeting God just as we are. Turning to God is the core of prayer. Turning to God in our sin and shame is the heart of spiritual transformation.

Ultimately, attachments are ways of coping with the feelings of vulnerability, shame and inadequacy that lie at the core of our false ways of being. Like Adam and Eve, our first response to our awareness of nakedness is to grab whatever is closest and quickly cover our nakedness. We hide behind the fig leaves of our false self.

All rich countries now employ legions of functionaries whose primary function is to make poor people feel bad about themselves.

Shame had an emotional power which it has lost today.

The real goal, however, was not to defeat the white man, but "to awaken a sense of shame within the oppressor and challenge his false sense of superiority.… The end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community" where all men would treat each other as brothers and equals. "There are great resources of goodwill in the southern white man that we must somehow tap,