Quotes About Shame

I mean a fat, ugly man can still be funny and lovable and successful," continued Jane. "But it's like it's the most shameful thing for a woman to be.

No wonder she felt so ashamed of her shyness, as if it were an embarrassing physical ailment that needed to be hidden at all costs.

Suicide creates a monstrous emotional upsurge of shame and guilt. Everyone participates in feeling responsible and even shamed at knowing the suicidal candidate. If these feelings are not healed the vampire of suicidal death can strike again and again.

He didn't like to be seen needing it - as if hunger were a sign of weakness.

hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.

It's not that I have no shame. Rather, I'm exhausted with shame, slippery all over with its sticky albumen taint. It is not an emotion that leads anywhere.

The things that happened behind the closed door of that house were appalling, and like a coward, I did a flit. I left them to it.

Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in.

I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.

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Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.

Or perhaps Anderson himself, overcome with shame, will perform a public mea culpa and set me free in person. Of

And once again, I realized that it spoke the truth. I was hungry. Very hungry, in fact. I am blessed with a total lack of conscience, but my keen sense of hunger takes its place quite ably and keeps my feet on the proper trail. And with a jolt of guilt that very nearly approached panic, I realized I'd had no dinner. What had I been thinking? There was no excuse for such rash and careless behavior. Shame on Dexter.

Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to their most shameful longings and knowledge?

He was filled with embarrassment: embarrassment for the human race, its preoccupation with money, it love of swindle.

One's country is like oneself. The more you learned about it, the more there was to be ashamed of.

One's country was like one's self. The more you learned about it, the more there was to be ashamed of.

I'm terrified that one offhand joke, one out-of-context remark, will set into motion a public shaming, because I see it happen every day.

Accept that you are bad and dirty and cheap and should be thrown to the wolves as scrap meat, and must never bear children, for who knows the faces they would be locked behind from birth until death.

It was a shame: by September, the ocean was finally warm enough for swimming, especially if it had been a hot August

I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off.

The whole universe was eyes. It's like a million people are waiting hours just for me and I finally come out onto a balcony and everybody is staring up because I don't have any clothes on. My butt felt like the Hindenberg and there was this elephant trunk hanging down in front of me. I was afraid to look down at it.

I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.