Quotes About Shame

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.

When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished.

I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But back then, you could not tell anyone.

I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

Lovers, if Angels could understand them, might utter strange things in the midnight air. For it seems that everything's trying to hide us. Look, the trees exist; the houses we live in still stand where they were. We only pass everything by like a transposition of air. And all combines to suppress us, partly as shame, perhaps, and partly as inexpressible hope.

E tutto congiura a tacere di noi, in parte come vergogna, o forse come speranza indicibile.

What a group of people we were, I thought. Why, you could cause us the greatest humiliation simply by confronting us with something we liked.

remember the short formal sermons intoned from the pulpit there, rendered in smooth articulate tones, with calm assurance purged of that wild emotion of the crude preachers most of us knew in our home towns and of whom we were deeply ashamed

What a group of people we were, I thought. Why, you could cause us the greatest humiliation simply by confronting us with something we liked. Not all of us, but so many.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

brings domesticity and common sense, and that propriety which every man loves, directly into this hurly-burly, and makes every bully ashamed.

Don't have your first talk about sex with your pregnant fifteen-year-old. Be positive. Talk about how good sex can be inside marriage. Don't be ashamed to talk about what God wasn't ashamed to create.

Things you did at night could be pretty embarrassing in the light of day.

If the loss of shame was the child of secularization, the loss of reason is the child of pluralization.

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it. - The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse

Others have criticized, and they have criticized themselves, into embarrassment.

She made empty rooms roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust of guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about.

Tudja, ez lehet a megoldás: dicsekedjünk azzal, amit szégyenlenünk kellene. Ez olyan trükk, ami, úgy látszik, mindig beválik.