Quotes About Shame

I look at each shadow, no two are the same. On each happy face there's no trace of shame. Each different and special and fully unique, no color's stronger, and no color's weaker.

Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow and spend my days in shame? (Jer. 20:18)

Shame is a pillaging thief, one that robs us of dignity, freedom, and joy.

You exposed to her the sinfulness of her sequential affairs, yet instead of ridiculing her, you redeemed her; instead of condemning her, you cherished her; instead of shaming her, you saved her.

For in Scripture it says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him [Jesus] will never be put to shame." Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. (1 Pet. 2:6–7 NIV)

That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.

never feel guilty about anything shame and guilt are a waste of time just do what you do-- and deal with it

Fashion postulates an achrony, a time which does not exist; here the past is shameful and the present is constantly "eaten up" by the Fashion being heralded.

The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace.

I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

He pointed to the money, and said: The love of it is the root of all evil. There it lies, the ancient tempter, newly red with the shame of its latest victory--the dishonor of a priest of God and his two poor juvenile helpers in crime. If it could but speak, let us hope that it would be constrained to confess that of all its conquests this was the basest and the most pathetic.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

S]in takes on new and real terrors when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

Todo ser humano debería sentirse avergonzado de su especie al pensar en los mamarrachos que siempre han ocupado los tronos.

Henry, I'm ashamed of you. You don't half thank the good gentleman. May I do it for you?' -Indeed you shall, dear, if you can improve it. Let us see you try. She walked to my man, got up in his lap, put her arm round his neck, and kissed him right on the mouth. Then the two old gentlemen shouted with laughter, but I was dumfounded, just petrified, as you may say.

The stillness, the solemnity that brooded in the woods, and the sense of loneliness, began to tell upon the spirits of the boys. They fell to thinking. A sort of undefined longing crept upon them. This took dim shape, presently—it was budding home-sickness. Even Finn the Red-Handed was dreaming of his doorsteps and empty hogsheads. But they were all ashamed of their weakness, and none was brave enough to speak his thought.

Ashamed before. Ashamed now.

For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but I couldn't. In a way, I felt ashamed, even though my writing was the one thing that whispered okayness in my ear. I didn't speak it, to anyone.

He wanted to walk out—Lord, how he wanted to (or at least he wanted to want to)—but he knew he wouldn't. It was much the same as the way he left his family in Stuttgart, under a veil of fabricated loyalty. To live. Living was living. The price was guilt and shame.

To live. Living was living. The price was guilt, and shame.

Living was living. The price was guilt and shame

because people so poor that they can't even afford shame and I wait.