Quotes About Shame

Es fácil que el miedo vaya por delante del pensamiento reflexivo. Y es esa estampida que nos empuja a actuar precipitadamente, provocada por la inseguridad, la que yo contemplo con gran escepticismo. Esa clase de miedo socavada la fraternidad, envenena la cooperación y nos lleva a hacer cosas de las que nos avergonzamos profundamente más tarde.

God loves you. Yes, you made a mistake a long time ago. That's true . . . But somebody else took the truth and twisted it into shame. Your parents, your teachers, your friends. They made you believe their lies. You accepted their shame instead of God's love.

the words of President Kennedy, uttered on June 11, 1963, only a few months before his tragic death: "We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the Scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities . . . Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

True nonviolent resistance is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love, in the faith that it is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.

It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love, in the faith that it is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.

Tell me, Lady Angeline, is there a color not represented in your rather splendid riding hat? It would be a shame if there were. It would be sitting all alone on a palette somewhere, feeling rejected and dejected.

Here you are...A beautiful girl with nothing to be ashamed of...And yet you are afraid to look at me. Someone has been cruel to you...Or perhaps life has been cruel. I don't know sir I said, Though of course I knew perfectly well.

My tears simply broke through the fragile wall that had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

Kad sam ?ula kako to govori, suze su mi jednostavno probile krhki zid koji ih je zadržavao i sa strašnim osje?ajem srama, položila sam glavu na stol i pustila ih sa se izliju iz mene.

C? îns? un patron absolut tic?los precum Hegel, a c?rui întreag? pseudofilozofare a fost de fapt o amplificare monstruoas? a argumentului ontologic, a c?utat s?-I apere pe acesta împotriva criticii lui Kant constituie o alian?? de care însuÅŸi argumentului ontologic i s-ar face ruÅŸine, oricât de puÅ£in are el de-a face cu ruÅŸinea.

Inspira tal horror el egoísmo que inventamos la cortesía para ocultarlo como una parte vergonzosa de nosotros mismos.

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

No one pitied him as he wished to be pitied," writes Tolstoy. "At certain moments after prolonged suffering he wished most of all (though he would have been ashamed to confess it) for someone to pity him as a sick child is pitied. He longed to be petted and comforted. He knew he was an important functionary, that he had a beard turning grey, and that therefore what he longed for was impossible, but still he longed for it.

People may hate being embarrassed and strive not to show it when they are, but embarrassment serves an important good. For, unlike sadness or anger or even love, it is fundamentally a moral emotion

I felt a sense of shame like a burning ulcer. This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

The cockroach who is dying and the woman who is blind agree not to notice each other's shame.

Sedan du sålunda fått ditt erkännande av utlänningen, så har du fått ditt namn här hemma naturligtvis och jag slipper gå längre och skämmas för dig.

Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody. There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

The most mortifying fact of my life is something that happened when I was fourteen and I have never admitted to anyone: not to friends nor therapists; not even in rehab when we were detailing our own personal spirals of shame did I confess. It is this: I am a graduate of the Barbizon School of Modeling.

A lack of "self-esteem" really suggests a feeling of shame over being one's self. Shame is the landfill emotion. It's not organic, like joy. It was dumped there by somebody else. A manipulation. Shame is very heavy, dense disappointment; somebody else's, in you. Inside of disappointment is a deeper judgment: Less than. Inferior. Defective.

It is always safe to see yourself truthfully. You never have to be ashamed of yourself, with yourself.

I feel dirty when I visit my mother. I feel that her intimacy is exposed. Her nightgowns are so thin that her flesh shows through them. Her need is like a vagina. And I do not like to see it.

Shame is the landfill emotion. It's not organic, like joy. It was dumped there by somebody else.

Shame is also a covert and effective bullying method. All those bullies from the seventh grade didn't simply evaporate. They grew up, too, and it's pretty safe to assume that the majority did not seek therapy on their eighteenth birthday to explore their disturbing childhood need for cruelty.