Quotes About Shame

Being gay is something to be ashamed of. That they will never be as good a parent as a heterosexual person. Which is rubbish.

Shame on me for always being selfish, the feeling is never returned.

A guilty conscious always exposes it's self.

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent?

Shame is pride's cloak.

Not displaying your affection openly is a sign that you are ashamed of who you are with.

Emma snapped from her daze. She sat forward and slid to ground so quickly that Hart was forced to scoot back.He fell to his backside, suddenly struck with the image of how he must look: sprawled on the floor with a cockstand, a pair of pink drawers in his fist. Utterly ridiculous. Corrupt. Depraved. Hart couldn't help but grin.

He was more embarrassed and discreet about sex than about things I thought more difficult, like killing people, which pretty much defined the history of Catholicism, where

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

If you should speak to anyone affected by a mental illness, the chances are that you will hear stories of hidden suffering, shame, and discrimination in nearly every sector of their lives.

He who has no shame before the world has no fear before God.

Elles arrivent à hauteur de la camionnette. Du coin de l'Å"il, Nadine capte que Manu sourit méchamment. Elle prend sa main dans la sienne, elle a honte de son geste en même temps qu'elle le fait. Sauf que Manu mélange tout de suite ses doigts aux siens, et tient sa paume serrée à en faire péter les articulations. Nouées, crispées l'une dans l'autre. Invincibles, même si elles n'ont pas une seule chance.

The political strategy of victimizing prostitutes also serves this purpose of branding male desire and confining it in its own squalor. He can pay to come if he wants, but he'll have to rub shoulders with filth, shame, and poverty. The prostitution transaction -- "I pay you, you satisfy me" -- is the basis of the heterosexual contract. It is hypocritical to pretend, as we do, that this transaction is foreign to our culture.

When I was on unemployment I was not ashamed of being a social outcast. Just furious. It's the same thing for being a woman: I am not remotely ashamed of not being a hot sexy number but I am livid that—as a girl who doesn't attract men—I am constantly made to feel as if I shouldn't even be around.

Indeed, it is amazing that a religion was founded on the experience of utter shame, of a god that dies the death of a condemned criminal.

Such is the reason for avoiding shame and keeping margins concealed for it is there where fragility is made manifest.

It's a shame that Nature made you only one man; there was material enough for a worthy man and a rogue.

Then Ardent, heavy hearted, turned away; sore for the rusted armor and the wasted days: but as Sir Constant saw his shield, and lo! the lost Emblem of the King was shining once more through its veil of dishonor. For the heart's tears of sorrow had fallen upon the shield, and where they had fallen they had burned away the shame and stain.

The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help and no help came: What their foes like to do was done, their shame Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good. –

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

I'm ashamed of what has happened to Canada. And I'm not leaving a $1.5 trillion deficit to my kids. No chance in hell is that happening.

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.