Quotes About Shame

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Often, mental and emotional illnesses go undiagnosed because the person suffering symptoms is too ashamed to speak up, or because their loved ones either fail to or choose not to recognize the signs.

The girl who dropped everything is Violet Markey, the same Violet Markey from the bell tower. She turns beet red and I can tell she wants to die. Not in a jumping-from-a-great-height kind of way, but more along the lines of Please, earth, swallow me whole.

I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of math, whereas it is a shameful thing to be illiterate.

It seemed nobody had to be sorry any more for anything they did; instead they doubled down, were proud of it, never admitted to being in the wrong about anything.

It seemed nobody had to be sorry any more for anything they did; instead they doubled down, were proud of it, never ever admitted to being in the wrong about anything.

The look on his face made me want to die. It confirmed every mean and low thing I'd ever thought about myself, the stuff you hope and pray no one will ever know about you. Because if they knew, they would see the real you, and they would despise you.

But I sure as heck won't admit any of that to Mark. I'll probably be dining on Extra Crunchy Jif tonight, but at least I won't have shamed my mama. Not that she would even be ashamed, but I know for a fact that she doesn't like the neighborhood knowing our family business.

Your mom makes your bed, doesn't she?" I ask him, leaning back against the pillows. "Yes," he says, without an ounce of shame.

He had a melodious voice. I wanted every day to be like this, to begin in shame and fear and end in glorious resistance.

Clothes are the only thing that separates us from animals," my mother said. "Clothes and a sense of shame.

The belief which has not been accorded to conviction may come to be extorted by very shame.

People always ask, "What's the worst thing heroin drove you to do?". I always answer, "showing up on Maury .

The obvious question: Was it better to die now or go on living ashamed of the fact that you were still alive? Why wasn't that on the SATs? Compare and constrast.

Su desnudez le causo vergüenza, se dio media vuelta y se tapó la cara con la oscuridad de la tarde.

As a girl, I was always told I was nasty or dirty if I was sexual in any way. Americans are such prudes.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

First, I wanted to tell my parents what was happening to me. What had just happened again the night before. For me, this would be a confession, because I felt like I might be sinning by allowing her to continue to do these things to me. I was the victim, but somehow, I felt in the wrong.