Quotes About Shame

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.

Sin is the preclusion of self-worth.

Shame is, hands down, the most uncomfortable feeling. And, because it produces continuous amounts of inflammatory chemicals in the body, it is also a health risk.

This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

If you're out there and need help, please seek it. Be proud of your valiant day-to-day struggle. There is no shame in needing support.

If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

It's so damned humiliating.

The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.

A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.