Quotes About Shame

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

Morality and honor are not to be confused. "The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.

Thank you ... San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you ... for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of.

And-he was ashamed to admit--he had been known to carry off the occasional roll of duct tape. That stuff could be used for everything.

It's a terrible thing, what we did, " said Francis abruptly. "I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It's a shame. I feel bad about it.

What kind of one-night stand takes your car the next morning? It's called the walk of shame, not grand theft auto.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!

There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Smoking means always having to say you're sorry.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.