Quotes About Shame

Shame] is the core experience of the ethical.

So much sublimation: domestic closeness had become intimate distance, intimate distance had become shame, shame had become resignation, resignation had become fear, fear had become resentment, resentment had become self-protection.

He said, "my discourse was all very strange, but especially the last part; for he could not understand, why nature should teach us to conceal what nature had given; that neither himself nor family were ashamed of any parts of their bodies; but, however, I might do as I pleased." 

I had been for some hours extremely pressed by the necessities of nature; which was no wonder, it being almost two days since I had last disburdened myself. I was under great difficulties between urgency and shame. The best expedient I could think of, was to creep into my house, which I accordingly did; and shutting the gate after me, I went as far as the length of my chain would suffer, and discharged my body of that uneasy load.

And when I began to consider that, by copulating with one of the Yahoo species I had become a parent of more, it struck me with the utmost shame, confusion, and horror.

Your heart, mind, hands and feet are stamped with the imprint of the Creator. Little wonder that the Devil wants you to be ashamed of your body.

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

Then Piglet saw what a Foolish Piglet he had been, and he was so ashamed of himself that he ran straight off home and went to bed with a headache.

Here dead we lie Because we did not choose To live and shame the land From which we sprung. Life, to be sure, Is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, And we were young.

Cuando supe que Adolf Eichmann murió con la palabra "Argentina" en su boca, cuando me enteré del mensaje de "amor eterno" que, en el umbral del más allá, había enviado a mi país, confieso que sentí vergüenza.

The Latin name for the fallacy of appealing to an illegitimate authority or expert is argumentum ad verecundiam, which means "argument to shame.

hay cosas, palabras, que uno lleva mordidas adentro y las lleva toda la vida, hasta que una noche siente que debe escribirlas, decírselas a alguien, porque si no las dice van a seguir ahí, doliendo, clavadas para siempre en la vergüenza.

I'm ashamed of our human capacity to hurt and maim one another, to desecrate the body. Yet it allows me to see the cabalistic harmony of heart peeking out behind lung, of liver and spleen consulting each other under the dome of the diaphragm -- these things leave me speechless.

The price of deceit is to feel like a cockroach.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.

Her parents were religious people who never renounced their obligation to love their daughter or their obligation to be ashamed.

Ashamed is just grateful waiting to happen. You only taste your dignity right before you puke it up.

In shame there is a loss of interest in the external world, and a loss of interest in what is or may be good about the self. Shame is the ethnic cleansing of the self.

That's a nice sense of immunity from prosecution you got there," Alma told them. "Be a shame if something were to happen to it.

Wenn Menschenherzen brechen und Menschenseelen verzweifeln, dann blicken aus dem Dämmerlicht der Vergangenheit die großen Überwinder von Not und Sorge, von Schmach und Elend, von geistiger Unfreiheit und körperlichem Zwange auf sie hernieder und reichen den verzagenden Sterblichen ihre ewigen Hände! Wehe dem Volke, das sich schämt, sie zu erfassen!

We shall put an end to the age of our humiliation, to the blot of slavery and change the shame of every individual into pride at having participated in the greatest age of the German people, the age of the rise of the Germanic Reich of the German nation.

When somebody abuses in public, we don't pay attention.

There's no shame in longing for peace.