Quotes About Shame

Being wrapped in duplicities can be isolating, and with the accumulation of time, can lead to corrosive shame and self-loathing.

When somebody, no matter who, gives everything, it makes people feel ashamed for him.

For Reuter, it was the last act of the Great War and something which reduced, if it did not remove, the shame of defeat and surrender. The message, for those who chose to think about it, was that Germany was down but not out - defeated but not reconciled.

Guilty like a chastised dog sitting in the corner, not because he knows taking food from the table is bad, but because he's done something inappropriate he doesn't understand.

I couldn't afford luxuries like embarrassment

But I've become convinced that the witcher's profession is worthy of respect. You protect us not only from the evil lurking in the darkness, but also from that which lies within ourselves. It's a shame there are so few of you.

I can hear… music…" Dandelion suddenly sobbed. "It happens," said the witcher, looking at the arrowheads. "Don't worry. There's no shame in fear.

Ho avuto paura. Sono stata vigliacca. E ho pagato per questo. Come paga ogni vigliacco. Col dolore, con la vergogna, con l'umiliazione ignobile. E un terribile disgusto di me stessa.

The most shameful and embarrassing chapters in church history were not the result of anything Jesus or the apostle Paul taught. Our most embarrassing, indefensible moments resulted from Christians leveraging the old covenant concepts.

Shame is a hold that sin uses on you. As long as you're ashamed of the sin, it has a hold on you. When you can name it and walk away from it, you're walking in the power of God. That's what the Lord wants from His people. Sin and shame have no place in the life of a man or woman of God.

gotten off easy, okay?" Lisa swallowed hard as her cheeks burned.

It's here in all the pieces of my shame that now I find myself again. From The Book of Hours II, 2

Quarrels can be made up; embarrassment can never quite be forgotten. Edith foresaw, sadly, that she would become an embarrassment.

we all have secrets. We've all done things of which we're ashamed.

When I was a kid, it was always very embarrassing for me if I wet the bed - I was 5 years old. I didn't want my parents or my brothers to find out because they'd bust my chops to no end.

I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.

Don't let anyone shame you for what you read or what you love in general. Many people are gonna tell you not to do xyz things.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

It's very hard to tell an actor, 'Stop acting.' It's easy to tell a non-actor, because they're embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, whereas an actor is happy.

In Britain, when the working class are summoned for fiction, it's 'isn't it a shame, isn't it a pity, isn't it awful, the terribly poor things... ' whereas from within, it's nothing like that. It's fantastic, it's glamorous, it's terrible and good the same as it is for everybody.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.