Quotes About Shame

A young woman is having a physical examination and is very embarrassed about her weight. As she removes her last bit of clothing, she blushes. "I'm so ashamed, Doctor." she says. "I guess I let myself go." The physician is checking her eyes and ears. "Don't feel ashamed, Miss. You look just fine." "Do you really think so, Doctor?" "Of course," he says, brandishing a tongue depressor. "Now open wide and say

Like life. Last as long as you can. Hold on as long as possible. And there's no shame in losing, because everyone loses. It's just that everyone has a different score. And the scores don't really matter after all. They disappear when you turn off the game.

How can you compete, being honor bred, with one who, were it proved he lies, were neither shamed in his own nor his neighbor's eyes?

There are many who fear disgrace, few who fear conscience.

And secret sin must ever share The secret misery.

I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.

When I read that nobody should ever feel ashamed to be alone or to be in a crowd, I realized that I often felt ashamed of both of those things.

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather, from the shame of thinking that they could have been avoided.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

The recording companies are continuing to look at ways to buy short and sell long. So now they give recording deals to groups of people who we refer to as 'garage bands' - they are amateurs who are bought for nothing and it's really a shame.

It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children.

Sexual harassment does bring shame.

When I went to Harvard Law School, my first year, I didn't want people to know I started my education in a colored school. I didn't want them to know I was the great-grandson of enslaved people. I thought it might diminish me.

When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.

On a daily basis, it's heartbreaking to see women put up with violence for years silently and feel ashamed of speaking out about it.

Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend to hide from us why a critic is actually thinking what they're thinking.

The idea that the more you hide something, the more it becomes something that's supposed to feel shameful is very true.

Shame alone makes people hide, not change.

I used to always hide my hand, I still do. I don't really like talking about it. Sometimes I still hide it and not even realize that I'm doing it.

I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'

I think where people get into trouble is hiding and feeling ashamed about what they don't have any control over in the first place.