Quotes About Shame

Lord, What a terrible shame. You're so attractive!' I know, I want to tell her. It should have happened to someone really ugly. And then it wouldn't have mattered.

He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.

IGNOMINIOUS means shamefully weak and ineffective. Oliver Twist saying, "Please sir, might I have some more?" would be ignominious, except that he isn't shameful, just sort of pathetic. This book has ignominious illustrations. They are shamefully weak because the person who drew them is not an artist.

Each time she closed her eyes she saw…herself…surrounded by the Mackay cousins, their hands touching her as pleasure whipped around her. But it wasn't pleasure she felt in the memory. She felt the dark swirl of shame.

She and Ray knew, and though Kelly felt no embarrassment, no shame at the knowledge, what she did feel was a sudden certainty that this wasn't a relationship she could endure. Not because of the knowledge. Not because of morality. Because she didn't love them. She loved Rowdy, and the discontent, the subtle anger building inside her for days now over his expectations were clawing at her heart.

I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - no bad plans either, no plans at all - and the lostness of that, compared with the clear ambitions of my friends (marriage, children, law school), sometimes shamed me. Other times in my mind I defended such a condition as morally and intellectually superior - my life was open and ready and free - but that did not make it less lonely.

And it was then that she first felt all the dark love and shame that came from the pure accident of home, the deep and arbitrary place that happened to be yours.

When she got to Eileen Reilly, Eileen turned red and said, I would rather not say. This astounded me, for her father was a handsome, charming salesman at Home Savings Shoes on Main Street - Stan the Shoe Man, my mother affectionately called him. But his daughter had absorbed some disappointment - his, or her mother's - and did not want to speak of how he earned his living. Perhaps that was the moment I learned this as a source of personal shame, or observed the possibility of it.

I had to live among them secretly, like one who conceals leprosy.

I am ashamed. I play a diminshed chord because I am diminished.

I am ashamed. I play a diminished chord because I am diminished.

City folks dress a sight different than we-uns and you don't want to shame yourself.

During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone

never sneer at good things or pretend to be worse than you are. Don't let false shame make you neglect the religion without which no man can live.

Three decades of being the most respectable science professional or suburban mother count for nothing set against one fuck in a doorway.

He would find a home where he would be accepted for what he did, not for who he was, and where he would no longer labor in the shadow of illegitimacy. His relentless drive, his wretched feelings of shame and degradation, and his precocious self-sufficiency combined to produce a young man with an insatiable craving for success.

Yet this was not a feasible option, since he could not do so without shocking Margaret and betraying his own shameful bigamy.

We cannot tell when Rockefeller first felt shame about his father, but this emotion was so consequential for his entire development that we must pause briefly to consider it.

We may avoid shame if we choose, for shame seldom takes us unawares but has its warning cry, and we can hear that cry as clearly as we can hear the coming of the north wind... The man lying in the mud hadn't heard the coming of the north wind.

Armin feel very ashamed. Ashamed of the banking system. Ashamed of Switzerland. These are terrible, unpatriotic things to feel. And I wonder if it isn't this shame which has allowed his illness in.

This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

Bagheera to see if the Panther was angry too, and Bagheera's eyes were as hard as jade stones. Thou hast been with the Monkey People--the gray apes--the people without a law--the eaters of everything. That is great shame. When Baloo hurt my head, said Mowgli (he was still on his back), I went away, and the gray

Alala! I have no cloth to wrap me. The kites will see that I am naked. I am ashamed to meet all these people.

The race of man haunted by the thought of what it used to be, ashamed of what they are, afraid of what they were.