Quotes About Shame

An option means decision, and a decision means acknowledging something is wrong and the shame one can no longer hide from.

Guilt, did I say? In what consists ours, unless in the opinion of an ill-judging world?

a little modesty averts disgrace

I've been embarrassing myself since about birth.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness.

Where shame is, there is also fear.

Truth… never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.

My race of glory run, and race of shame,And I shall shortly be with them at rest.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

The Christian preacher has nothing to hide. The Devil is in the business of hiding. The preacher reveals. The Devil obscures. The preacher clarifies. The Devil dulls the mind and heart. The preacher shines and burns. He is ashamed of nothing in his message. And this has everything to do with logic and right reason.

What you love determines what you feel shame about. If you love for men to make much of you, you will feel shame when they don't. But if you love for men to make much of Christ, then you will feel shame if he is belittled on your account.

Errant Israelites actually called on their idols to do what only God can do. How do the Daughter of Babylon's idols, and her idol worshippers, end up? "Therefore behold, days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon; and her whole land will be put to shame, and all her slain will fall in her midst." (Jeremiah 51:47)

To Egypt's eternal shame—this is, after all, a country that makes it a crime to besmirch its image abroad—nearly the only help is coming from overseas. Worse, some of it comes from the U.N. World Food Program, more often associated with the victims of famine in North Korea and the displaced of sub-Saharan Africa than with booming tourist regions.

Why are you so nervous, aint you been with a cocksucker before?—thats what I am, pal and I aint ashamed of it.

And then I started driving to the beaches, I guess to make sure there was a whole world ready to welcome me when I finally decided to join it—if I ever decided to. I always came there with the intention of meeting someone. But then I would see a screaming fairy—and suddenly I'd be ashamed. It's very strange—but I couldnt bear to look into his eyes, afraid, I guess, that he'd look back at me with recognition.

Humans are supposed to be better than that! I'm embarrassed for my whole damned species.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.

A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.*

And so there was a chair which no one ever sat in standing in the bay window of the living-room. And it was understood that the chair would remain empty until a dog was born at Brookfield who could lie in it without shame.

Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.

well-documented that physically or sexually abused children usually keep such matters to themselves, either from fear of retaliation or feelings of shame and embarrassment." Maritza

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.

What's a whore? She's like the guilty counterfeited coin Which whosoe're first stamps it brings in trouble all that receive it.