Shame Quotes

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

The vanished lives of all are filled with many shames. Therefore do not judge.

The secret is I have no shame.

To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. [Suicide note.]

The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.

One of the few downsides to being awakened is that we no longer require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream. It's a shame, because if I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

Scars on the back are a swordsman’s shame.

What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.

Be strong, know who you are, no be shame, stand up, e ala e.

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

As the adage goes, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me'... It's time for patriots everywhere to rally together again and take back America.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Blowfish, did you say?" "Ah, no. Blofis, actually." "Oh, I see," Poseidon said. "A shame. I quite like blowfish.

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.

The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.

There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.

Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.

There is no shame in black beauty.

No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.

[To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

There is no shame in preferring happiness.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.

Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.

My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.