Quotes About Shame

This is what healing demands. Behavior that is hurtful, shameful, abusive, or demeaning must be brought into the fierce light of truth, and truth can be brutal.

Forgiveness does not mean that we pretend things are anything other than they are. I am hurt, we say. I am betrayed, we announce. I am in pain and grief. I have been treated unfairly. I am feeling ashamed. I am angry this has been done to me. I am sad and I am lost. I may never forget what you have done to me, but I will forgive. I will do everything in my power not to let you harm me again. I will not retaliate against you or against myself.

There's nay shame to ha' fallen in battle, mo caraidh, he said softly. The greatest of warriors may be overcome.

To stand against a crowd would take something more than ordinary courage; something that went beyond human instinct. And I feared I did not have it, and fearing, was ashamed.

And that knowledge, bred in the bone, is what lies behind mob rule. Because to step outside the group, let alone to stand against it, was for uncounted thousands of years death to the creature who dared it. To stand against a crowd would take something more than ordinary courage; something that went beyond human instinct. And I feared I did not have it, and fearing, was ashamed. It

Because to step outside the group, let alone to stand against it was for uncounted thousands of years death to the creature who dared it. To stand against a crowd would take something more than ordinary courage; something that went beyond human instinct. And I feared I did not have it, and fearing, was ashamed.

Her entrance was greeted by a general outcry of cordiality that made her mildly ashamed of her cynicism.

I don't want to embarrass myself on TV!

I am such a sillybilly that I embarrass myself all the time.

You can't be afraid to embarrass yourself sometimes.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

I'm so embarrassed by that album. I don't even own it myself.

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

I have to say that I am embarrassed about how emotional I am.

I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

I find just being on set embarrassing. Mortifying. And that's with all my clothes on.

My films are about embarrassment.

I always like stories where the egg ends up on my face.

Writers sometimes cast themselves into the most profound depths of despair in order to master it and move on. A person's true means of expression is his life. Living the shame of life and maintaining silence, that was the greatest accomplishment of all.

I have felt that some sort of awful shame is attached to my name and that I have somehow brought this shame along from somewhere I have never been, and that I have carried this sin as my sin even though I have never committed it; this sin pursues me all my life, which life is undoubtedly not my own even thought I live it , I suffer from it die of it.

Indeed, the sense of shame seems to me to be the earliest indication of the moral consciousness of our race.

But most- and worst- of all, as we and all the world slowly learned about the full extent of Hitler's Final Solution, we realized that all Germans, no matter what they had suffered or whether they had participated in any way in the atrocities, would bear guilt, shame and dishonor, probably forever.