Quotes About Shame

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.

Try not to worry about embarrassing yourself. That's a lifetime's task.

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

Fame is great when everything in your life is going well. But when it goes wrong, when you're having to jump on a bus, because you can't afford to pay for a taxi, and you catch people looking at you. It might sound strange, but you feel ashamed. And that's hard to deal with.

Yes, I'm ashamed of my participation as a taxpayer in American drone bombing.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

Muslims are not ashamed of their Prophet's teaching about war. On the contrary, for us it is a great source of pride.

Everyone's got skeletons in their closet.

I—I figured it'd be a shame to ruin your pretty face,

The progression from perfect little boy to Nice Guy basically occurs in three stages: abandonment, internalization of toxic shame, and the creation of survival mechanisms.

But in modern America we often shame the wrong people. Instead of deterring behavior that undermines the common good, shame is too often deployed against people who don't fit in—to ostracize them even further.

Public shaming can also carry a painful stigma. "Ignominy is universally acknowledged to be a worse punishment than death," wrote Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence who also sought to put an end to public stocks and whipping posts.

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

We need to let go of the illusion that we can control this life business. We cannot. We never could! It was an illusion. And we need to let go of the false beliefs that tell us that we are bad and shameful. We cannot become whole as long as we believe that any part of us is bad or shameful.

We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.

If you have no gratitude, have you no shame?

It is hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what I have done." Jeffrey Dahmer 

They never let you live it down. One little mistake!- Nero

What you need is an hypothesis for how you're going to get that slotless screw out of there and scientific method doesn't provide any of these hypotheses. It operates only after they're around. This is the zero moment of consciousness. Stuck. No answer. Honked. Kaput. It's a miserable experience emotionally. You're losing time. You're incompetent. You don't know what you're doing. You should be ashamed of yourself.

The shaming words were solid, immovable events in my life. What do you do with the solid and immovable? You build on it.

I don't like reading about martyrs because they always make me feel petty and ashamed... ashamed to admit I hate to get out of bed on frosty mornings and shrink from a visit to the dentist!