Quotes About Embarrassment
S: But Chris, I think his embarrassment isn't in relation to you or me but to himself. What can he do? C: I hate being thrown into such a physical state. S: Isn't that experiencing life to the hilt? C: No, it's just a dumb infatuation. I'm so ashamed. S: But even if his silence hurts you, isn't that what attracted you to him? The fact that he was inaccessible. So, I think there is a contradiction there, at least nothing to feel ashamed of -.
~ Chris Kraus
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Oh. Momma told me not to tell you that your bed squeaks. But I think you know, 'cause I could hear it this morning. Jake dropped his fork. Tor, for the first time Jake had ever seen, turned scarlet. Maureen looked at them both and sighed. Christmas is always so interesting with you, Mark.
~ Chris Owen
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Embarrassment has no place in scientific method!" Walter said brusquely.
~ Christa Faust
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All at once I am so tired of this-of the constant threat of humiliation and pain, the fear of exposure, of trying to act like I'm normal when I'm not- that I burst into tears. No, I am not all right, I want to say. I am fouled, degraded, ashamed, a burden and an embarrassment.
~ Christina Baker Kline
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Children of borderlines may tune out by dissociating and disconnecting from their environment. They cannot feel embarrassed, humiliated, ridiculed, or hurt if they are no longer in their own bodies. Unfortunately, the sensation of depersonalization or dissociation makes them feel crazy.
~ Christine Ann Lawson
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Bad enough that getting turned on when he had nothing more than a bath towel to hide it would make the condition kind of hard to miss, but getting turned on in front of his ex-fiancee was akin to smearing honey on his junk and walking into grizzly territory.
~ Heidi Betts
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Embarrassment seems to be the sole means of communication between parents and children.
~ Heinrich Boll
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One of Mama's parenting mantras was: "Oh, Helen Michelle, I have yet to begin to embarrass you.
~ Helen Ellis
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Anna had the faculty of blushing.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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When she heard this Sonya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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Levin suddenly blushed, not as grown men blush, slightly, without being themselves aware of it, but as boys blush, feeling that they are ridiculous through their shyness,
~ Leo Tolstoy
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One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
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One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed. We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed).
~ Leonard Ravenhill
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One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed. We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed). The fact beats ceaselessly into my brain these
~ Leonard Ravenhill
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Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.
~ letts tracy
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Eigenlijk is het niet zo erg, maar wel dermate stompzinnig, dat je je er voor geneert," dacht Lewin en troostte zich met de overweging dat het nu eenmaal zo hoorde - iedereen deed het.
~ Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoj
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Don't judge. I used to buy underwear because I didn't do my laundry.
~ Michelle Obama
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Using a public bathroom is an incredibly embarrassing experience. I enter the stall but can't reach the lock on the door.
~ Sinead Burke
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All I can say is Mike Lee is an embarrassment to the state of Utah. He's been a tremendous embarrassment to our family, to our state, to our country to have him as a U.S. senator.
~ Jon Huntsman, Sr.
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'Awkward' is a ubiquitous teen word to denote socially unsanctioned behavior. It usually implies first- or secondhand embarrassment when you or a friend step outside the rules. Awkward doesn't sound overtly judgmental or negative; it's deliberately vague.
~ Mary H.K. Choi
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The poor performance of the huge Soviet army against the tiny Finnish army had been a big embarrassment to the Soviet Union: about eight Soviet soldiers killed for every Finn killed. The longer a war with Finland went on, the higher was the risk of British and French intervention, which would drag the Soviet Union into war with those countries and invite a British/French attack on Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus.
~ Jared Diamond
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But you are gazing at me the way God gazed at Adam and I am embarrassed by your look of love and possession and pride. I want to go now and cover myself with fig leaves. It's a sin this not being ready, this not being up to it.
~ Jeanette Winterson
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He who blushes is already guilty.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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My daddy is nothing like your daddy! I shouted. When my daddy passes out, he never pisses himself!
~ Jeannette Walls
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