Quotes About Shame

For some people, loud advocacy of Trump helps to cover up the deep doubt and even shame they feel about their support for Trump.

There's a tremendous sense of shame that people who are lonely feel. I say that as someone who felt ashamed of being lonely as a child and even at points during adulthood.

Shame is something that's man-made.

There's so much stuff in America that is very shameful. It's stuff that I can't endorse, but I still perform there.

Losing 7-1 at home is a shameful thing.

Ripping children away from their parents has a particular shameful history, both in this country and around the world.

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

For years, I looked down on my mother for shopping at Asda, and now I feel very ashamed of it.

I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.

And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk back, and it's sort of shaming in a way.

It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.

My ignorance was inexcusable, and it made me ashamed.

There must be the keenest sense of duty, and with it must go the joy of living; there must be shame at the thought of shirking the hard work of the world. —THEODORE ROOSEVELT, The Rough Riders and An Autobiography

the very fact that I felt a moment's qualm on inviting him because of his color made me ashamed of myself and made me hasten to send the invitation.

As soon as the victim steps out of the pact by refusing to feel ashamed," he said, "the whole thing crumbles.

Shame internalized can lead to agony.

It may be somewhat paradoxical to refer to shame as a 'feeling', for while shame is initially painful, constant shaming leads to a deadening of feeling. Shame, like cold, is, in essence, the absence of warmth. And when it reaches overwhelming intensity, shame is experienced, like cold, as a feeling of numbness and deadness.

in our line of work the more humiliated a person is, the more viral the story tends to go. Shame can factor large in the life of a journalist—the personal avoidance of it and the professional bestowing of it onto others.

I feel that a really public shaming or humiliation is a conflict between the person trying to write his own narrative and society trying to write a different narrative for that person. One story tries to overwrite the other and so to survive you have to own your story.

It's about the terror, isn't it? The terror of what? The terror of being found out.

our imagination is so limited, our arsenal of potential responses so narrow, that the only thing anyone can think to do with an inappropriate shamer like Adria is to punish her with a shaming. All of the shamers had themselves come from a place of shame, and it really felt parochial and self-defeating to instinctively slap shame onto shame like a clumsy builder covering cracks.

He perdido el buen nombre, la parte inmortal de mi ser, y solo me queda lo más bestial.»

The word forever had been coming up a lot during my two years among the publicly shamed. Jonah and Justine and people like them were being told, 'No. There is no door. There is no way back in. We don't offer any forgiveness.' But we know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don't?

All violence {is} a person's attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.