Quotes About Shame

An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.

When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

It's not a problem that we're sinners; it's a problem that we aren't ashamed of our sin and don't seek forgiveness.

Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.

Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, Th' unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy flame.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathingthey are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

All my life I've been called unworthy by the voice inside my head filled with regret and shame. And all I have is me to blame.

I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when I talk myself into doing so, I taste only shame. I have an eating disorder.

A slut is like the first piece of bread in a loaf, everyone touches it, but nobody wants it.

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

That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

feel what I feel within myself—that is trying to become aware of it also what I feel in others not being ashamed of my feeling, thoughts—or ideas realize the thing that they are—

Hace falta pasión y pasión gritada a o pensada a los gritos o escrita a gritos. Hay qué gritarle al oído a la gente, ya que su aparente sordera es una especie de autodefensa de cobarde y malsana autodefensa. Hay que lograr que se despierte en los demás la vergüenza de sí mismos, que se sustituya en ellos la autodefensa por el autoasco. El día en que el uruguayo sienta asco de su propia pasividad ese día, se convertirá en algo útil.

Hay que gritarle en el oído a la gente, ya que su aparente sordera es una especie de autodefensa, de cobarde y malsana autodefensa. Hay que lograr que se despierte en los demás la vergüenza de sí mismos, que se sustituya en ellos la autodefensa por el autoasco. El día en que el uruguayo sienta asco de su propia pasividad, ese día se convertirá en algo útil.

Hay que lograr que se despierte en los demás la vergüenza de sí mismos, que se sustituya en ellos la autodefensa por el autoasco. El día en que el uruguayo sienta asco de su propia pasividad, ese día se convertirá en algo útil.

Preferí que la oscuridad fuera realmente impenetrable, a prueba de toda rendija iluminada, con tal de que sus estremecimientos de vergüenza, de miedo, qué sé yo, se cambiaran paulatinamente, en otros estremecimientos, más tibios, más normales, más propios de la entrega

tengo vergüenza y pena y esperanza

Dev felt suddenly ashamed of himself for what he'd thought earlier, back in the car, that Lyssa should keep her craziness to herself, that having to feel compassion for a messed-up, hurting person was annoying and unfair.

Well into my mid-thirties I considered dieting my biggest secret. I wish I could say it was a thrilling one, like dating my college TA, but it's more like waxing my upper lip—I didn't ever want to talk about it, and I'd rather people thought I never had to worry about it in the first place.

You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.

But focus always on your shame, and your shame will eat you. It will become you. That is the coward's way. A coward never has to learn.

Self-consciousness isn't just A curse. It is part of THE curse.

Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.