Quotes About Shame

But it was my way of becoming a human being, and part of being human is being on the verge of disgrace.

Then, if to make your ruin more, You'll peevishly be coy, Die with the scandal of a whore And never know the joy.

If she were alive today, she would be ashamed of me. I'm trying to change that.

It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.

confession ran in the family.

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.

Gain fame, and the paparazzi or media waits and watches for them to slip, just to shame their name.

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.

There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us."

The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.

There comes a time when when you need to stop being embarrassed by someone and start being embarrassed FOR someone.

I feel terrible. I'm not proud of what I did. You deserve better.

The worse thing you can ever do to yourself is to be ashamed of being you just because of what other people will think...that's a suicide to your existence.

I became addicted to the guilt. The strange thrill of doing something so morbid, so off-color, and so completely wrong.

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.