Quotes About Shame

How could he face his wife as a loser?

The life cycle of public disgrace has been condensed to where the actual offense gets washed away, leaving just a neutral sheen of notoriety.

At the very least, given this symbolic process and its ideological consequences, mass incarceration's racial disparities will rarely provoke a crisis of conscience for those ensconced in white dominant society. To be sure, there will be some white analysts who insist that knowledge of the disparity and the conditions of mass incarceration should generate society-wide shame and so indict a whole society for the indignity and inhumanity that U.S. prison institutions have institutionalized.

Replaying her words in my head, I could feel my face redden again. I wanted to flush my head down the toilet.

I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

We all have thoughts that would shame the devil.

I was in a hotel room in Dallas, and I was jerking off so much and so sadly and pathetically, that the phone rang, and I thought it's them, they're complaining. ... "Sir, could you please stop?"

I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.

Ke$ha IS the walk of shame.

He'd done it like he did everything else—with passion and total disregard for how much it might embarrass her.

It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem confronting our future. And that's our excessive spending.

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.

If you have no shame, and it's your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?

Admiring the woman you love isn't a secret; The secret only admires shamed hearts and supplies courage to love the one who's a secret.

I see seven people in one room and one pregnant and people fucking anyway because people so poor that they can't even afford shame and I wait

In our language there is a word with enormous power to create shame and guilt ("should")

When I advise, "Don't do anything that isn't play!" some take me to be radical, even insane, I earnestly believe, however, that an important form of self-compassion is to make choices motivated purely by our desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, duty, or obligation

We all pay dearly when people respond to our values and needs not out of a desire to give from the heart but out of fear, guilt, or shame. Sooner or later, we will experience the consequences of diminished goodwill on the part of those who comply with our values out of a sense of either external or internal coercion.

I earnestly believe, however, that an important form of self-compassion is to make choices motivated purely by our desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, duty, or obligation.

If the way we evaluate ourselves leads us to feel shame, and we consequently change our behavior, we are allowing our growing and learning to be guided by self-hatred.

an important form of self-compassion is to make choices motivated purely by our desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, duty, or obligation.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.