Quotes About Shame

I kept looking for something else, a clue, something rotting or breeding, a layer of mystery or chaos or shame, but I didn't find it.

I have often looked at photographs of writers in their elegant book-lined studies and marvelled at what seems to me a mirage of sorts, the near-perfect alignment of seeming with being, the convincing illusion of mental processes on public display, as though writing a book were not the work of someone capable of all the shame and deviousness and cold-heartedness in the world.

He looked up at the reddening sky and said with a self-deprecating laugh, "You put me to shame, Seraphina. Your bravery always has." "It's not bravery; it's bullheaded bumbling." He shook his head, staring off into the middle distance. "I know courage when I see it, and when I lack it.

We all have our secrets. We all have our vulnerabilities.

To admit that you're shooting for the stars - that you're allowed to do that, that it's not shameful - that to me is very vulnerable.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that's such a downer, and people hate that topic. It's not that vulnerability is the upside, but it's better than shame, I guess.

When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.

I don't have shame with my body. I don't find a breast more vulnerable than an elbow.

I do have a problem with developments that hyper-exploit politically vulnerable communities for profit. That it continues is a shame upon us all, because we are all responsible for the future that we create.

Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.

We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we restrict our mental lives to smaller and smaller areas.

No one walks into a food bank with their head held high.

It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.

I saw this Facebook video of a boy, probably around seven, wearing a dress he had fashioned from a blanket, sashaying through his house while his mother applauded and cheered him on. He was so proud. It was such a beautiful thing but bittersweet because I knew his spirit would change soon: that he'd become self-aware and ashamed at some level.

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.

A letter does not blush.

Many women don't appreciate their form because it doesn't look like what they see on the front cover of a magazine. They feel ashamed of their bodies.

I don't think I've ever been called up for an action film with a male lead - which is a shame. I'd love to take on Bond.

I've definitely over-filled and I've definitely had some bad Botox where your eyes drop but, y'know, there's no shame in my game.

I had actual relationships - I got shamed for getting another boyfriend, and I was just trying to find love.

In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.

I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.

I'm on all the apps: Tinder, Grindr, Bumble, Scruff. I have no shame about that.

Once I was 13 and on the bus with me mate Mary when we passed this little bit of green where all the winos used to go and it was a little bit embarrassing because I saw me dad there amongst them all. When it was bad, it was very bad.