Quotes About Shame

I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.

I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.

I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word.

Certainly I was a bully. I'm not ashamed of it at all. The hostility of the establishment to what you were able to do in the Forties and Fifties was very strong. Sometimes you have to fight against your society.

My household, as I was growing up, was a house of hidden shame.

I grew up poor in East Houston. I used to be ashamed of it, but I'm not anymore. It's kind of a badge of courage now.

If parents know how many times others are finding lice on their kids' heads, maybe other parents will not hide their own discoveries in shame.

Usually people are ashamed when they do something wrong. People love to live in the darkness... I live in the light. I didn't do anything wrong by saving human life.

I know what it's like to be humiliated.

My behavior is humiliating.

Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.

We do not feel ourselves outside of our time but continue to undergo shameful compromises with it. This feeling of shame is one of philosophy's more powerful motifs. We are not responsible for the victims but responsible before them.

La honte d'être un homme, y a-t-il une meilleure raison d'écrire ?

But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.

She talked to me because we had the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified nostalgia.

I just figured you'd be too proud. Self-conscious and proud." I was a rather nasty cocktail of both those traits

She talked to me because we had the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified nostalgia. I

A los norteamericanos les chifla ver cómo se disculpan los pecadores.

My penis lay pathetically along my left thigh, like some small animal washed ashore.

Finger, whore, hollow!

Marrow-deep embarrassment, the kind that becomes part of your DNA, that changes you.

Putting things off or not finishing is behavior that many of us adopt to avoid uncomfortable feelings of pain, guilt, shame, anxiety, or fear. Procrastinators

As I run, hot tears of shame are streaming down my face. Since my accident, I've heard a lot about the person I used to be. Never did I imagine this. I sprint harder, accelerating onto the sidewalk, outpacing even the most intense drills from practice. It's no problem escaping Aaron and Bear. But I'll never be able to get away from myself.

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.