Quotes About Shame

Homophobia and the closet are allies. Like an unhealthy co-dependent relationship they need each other to survive. One plays the victim living in fear and shame while the other plays the persecutor policing what is 'normal'. The only way to dismantle homophobia is for every gay man and lesbian in the world to come out and live authentic lives. Once they realise how normal we are and see themselves in us….the controversy is over.

The closet does have a benefit. It provides safety. Which at times is important. But remember, as long as you are in there, two other things will be too. Fear and shame.

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

A nice man would feel ashamed even before a dog.

A life is a game in which anyone can make loads of money by doing things without guilt & shame, but a person can make own name only by being different and that means often punishment from the people.

A man who has no self-respect can make any number of woman to accept him as her boyfriend; A husband who has no shame could remain for any number of years in the bondage of his wife and even would foolishly claim the same as his happily married days.

A person should never feel ashamed of the successive failure in own career and life because if he gets to know the fact as how most people have made their monetary success and shamelessly show happiness over it , then he would not even like to spit on their shit face.

A person who can speak lies relentlessly without guilt and shame is often invited as analyst/specialist/expert for panel discussion of news channels and one who could also play with the emotion of the people oft spends longer duration and even becomes a regular member of the team

A person who has attained wealth/high position in an organization/a nation via sycophancy/bootlicking/dirty politics game will never neither care for name/fame nor ever feel shame no matter how much people abuse/criticize/blame him/her and going to remain self-obsessed/worthless/shameless as always.

A selfish person cares nothing what anyone else says about his self-centric/own face-loving nature even when gets fully exposed,and continues to speak pompously & write pretentiously to remain shameless & hypocrite as always.

A sycophant can never be made to feel shame of his degrading act and rather he would do the same more on being asked not to demean himself.

He who works like a mule under the rule & whip of his wife and does not feel ashamed of himself and rather grins or laughs on being ridiculed by the people calling him a henpecked husband, is a validated FOOL.

The more a person has oneself disgraced , the more the people around him/her are two-faced.

There is no dearth of people who take the credit of others' effort and do not feel even a bit ashamed of it.

And why do I hang my head in shame? Is it because I have done some wrong? Yes, my brothers, because I have sinned. Because we have all sinned. Because seeing Satan and his works around us, yet we do nothing. Therefore we have sinned. Oh there is none so blind as those who will not see.' 'Hallelujah!

The only shame is the sin.

Maybe what shame needs to stay alive is the consent of the shamed.

Shame can look a lot like rude.

There's nothing worse in the world than shameless woman—save some other woman.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speach and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

Is that you? When you fail, are you too humiliated or ashamed to ask for help? When you suffer, are you too embarrassed to ask for more support and comfort?

I dunno…maybe everyone has to feel guilty. Everyone! Forever!