Quotes About Shame

Never be ashamed of who you are. True shame always belongs to the person that enjoys being ashamed of who you are.

Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.

Fools through false shame conceal their open wounds.

I would often be a coward but for the shame of it.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.

nor had I understood till then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others.

As though the ever-hovering shadow of humiliation isn't in fact, what binds one to everyone else.

Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame, Who seek, who hope, who love, who live but thee; Thine eyes my pride, thy lips my history; If thou praise not, all other praise is shame.

Religious faith—for all its problems, despite its maddening tendency to replicate ungrace—lives on because we sense the numinous beauty of a gift undeserved that comes at unexpected moments from Outside. Refusing to believe that our lives of guilt and shame lead to nothing but annihilation, we hope against hope for another place run by different rules. We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.

So I'm trying, instead of shaming or pretending, to come to terms with my emotions, and bring them before God honestly. I have come to realize that I'm never going to stop having emotions, and probably strong emotions, because that is the way I'm wired.

Legalism may "work" in an institution such as a Bible college or the Marine Corps. In a world of ungrace, structured shame has considerable power. But there is a cost, an incalculable cost: ungrace does not work in a relationship with God. I have come to see legalism in its pursuit of false purity as an elaborate scheme of grace avoidance. You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

a man who admits no guilt can accept no forgiveness.

Shame and suffering, as St. Bernard says, are the two ladder-uprights which are set up to heaven, and between those two uprights are the rungs of all virtues fixed, by which one climbs to the joy of heaven… In these two things, in which is all penance, rejoice and be glad, for in return for these, twofold blisses are prepared: in return for shame honour; in return for suffering, delight and rest without end.

I cannot be your mistress," I say simply. "I would rather die than dishonor my name. I cannot bring that shame on my family." I pause. I am anxious not to be too discouraging. "Whatever I might wish in my heart," I say very softly.

Patrick and I were about as different as two people could possibly be. Nothing embarrasses Patrick very much, and everything embarrasses me. Just being alive embarrasses me.

La vergüenza humana surge exclusivamente de la amenaza del descubrimiento.

He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.

First and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered By self is, of all things. the most shameful and objectionable.