Shame Quotes

• The problem is when you become so well known that everyone is watching you and you don't have an opportunity to observe. It's something that I don't want to lose. I like being unnoticed when I don't feel like being noticed. It's not like I crave attention all the time. Something that I've always loved and appreciated is the chance to see something about someone's character, observe and kind of retain it, and study it without feeling like I'm studying it. I have an intense curiosity. And it would be a shame if I lose the ability to do that.

  

  Adrien Brody
  • Opportunity
  • Problem
  • Study

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

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Listening
  • Tree
  • Breathe

• I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Shame
  • Self-Esteem
  • Children's Book

• Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.

  

  Daniel Mendelsohn
  • Pain
  • Moments
  • Cutting

• A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.

  

  William Gifford
  • Hate
  • Fate
  • Scorn

• Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Shame
  • Imperfect
  • Breaks

• If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Weakness
  • Attract
  • Expose

• If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Failure
  • Feelings
  • Cure

• The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Shame
  • Critics

• The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Poverty
  • Shame
  • Actual

• There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not, confirms our existence. Everyone needs to be seen, accepted and loved.

  

  Anne Sewitsky
  • Existence
  • Loved
  • Accepted

• The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.

  

  Michael Gurian
  • Man
  • Judge
  • Create

• After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Universe
  • Use
  • Creating

• If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Attitude

• Shame must be accepted to be effective.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Shame
  • Effective

• I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that.

  

  Roma Downey
  • People
  • Knows
  • Shame

• Shame can be self-indulgence too.

  

  Eleanor Clark
  • Shame
  • Indulgence

• Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Time
  • Eternity
  • Shame

• Shame is the power we give others to wield over us.

  

  Chinelo Okparanta
  • Giving
  • Shame

• You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Success
  • Learning
  • Wisdom

• I read a lot of studies about the fact that there is a bias in the way health care is doled out, down to the fact that most medical studies are done on men, not women, so most dosages are planned for men, not women, and on and on. And more than that, women's pain is gauged differently and their complaints are received differently. And the idea that there's a place where you can go where everything is geared toward you, as a woman, is great. But it's a shame that we need to find places that are "safe" when the world, the whole world, should be a safe place.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • World
  • Pain
  • Care

• Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Shame
  • Guilt

• Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend to hide from us why a critic is actually thinking what they're thinking.

  

  Michelle Dean
  • Thinking
  • Criticism
  • Argument

• No longer is it possible for men to be content to have, while their brothers have not. The physical misery of the world's disinherited is becoming the spiritual misery of the world's elect. Superior privileges of any sort now carry with them the sense of shame.

  

  George Davis Herron
  • Shame
  • Misery
  • Privileges

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