Quotes About Shame

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

I'm guilty for a lot of things.

I grew up Catholic, so I feel guilty about everything.

We were seduced, we were abused and we felt very guilty.

Some people would say Counting Crows or Third Eye Blind would be a guilty pleasure, but they're two of my favorite bands - I'm not ashamed of it.

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

If there is a single factor that makes spiritual direction effective as a change agency for the soul, it is this: spiritual direction holds our shame at bay long enough for us to see ourselves as God sees us in Christ.

Surely, if his heart continued to make such a noise, they would hear it inside, they would open the door and the young man would be turned away in disgrace.

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

Si hay cosas de las que uno no se jacta, hay otras en las que se sufre demasiada humillación cuando se es compadecido.

Si hay cosas de las que uno no se jacta, hay otras por las que se sufre demasiada humillación al ser compadecido

You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself.

When you sneak food, you perpetuate the belief that you are too ugly, too needy, too intense to be seen and loved for who you are... You give yourself the message that who you are is not acceptable, and that you must pretend to be someone else to be loved.

And shame it is, if that a priest take keep, To see a shitten shepherd and clean sheep:

And what a shame it is, if a Priest took not prudent care, to witness a shitty shepherd shepherding unsullied sheep.

Certainly a man who dies in the flower of his Excellency when he is sure of his good name, has the greatest honor; then he brings no shame upon himself or upon his friend. Therefore his friend should be happier that he died in such circumstances then if he had died when his name had grown pale with age and his accomplishments were all forgotten Theseus

All feeling of shame rests upon isolation of the individual; it arises whenever stress is laid upon the ego , whenever the attention of a circle is drawn to such an individual — in reality or only in his imagination —which at the same time is felt to be in some way incongruous. For that reason retiring and weak natures particularly incline to feelings of shame.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.