Shame Quotes

Shame Quote of the day

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

Sugar cane reach up to GodAnd every baby cryingShame the blanket of my nightAnd all my days are dying

I obscenity in the milk of my shame.

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

Shame is an ornament to the young a disgrace to the old.

O shame! Where is they blush?

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

What do you consider the most humane? - To spare someone shame. What is the seal of liberation? - To no longer be ashamed in front of oneself.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Do not humiliate people, shame is a lifetime lasting effect that can be nursed but can never be cured.

[L]ove ... privileges another to see us in ways that would shame us and disgust others without the intervention of love.

Once you talk about your shame to others you no longer feel shame

I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall.