Shame Quotes

I could just cry. It's just a nightmare, a shame.

Ann Miller
- Cry
- Shame
- Nightmare
But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.

Emilia Lanier
- Blame
- Fault
- Adam

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

Sophocles
- Man
- Wise
- Shame
I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real.

Sarah Dessen
- Real
- Night
- Fear
When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.

Brennan Manning
- God
- Gift
- Guilt
I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

Mike Mills
- Trying
- Culture
- Hate
Less shame a greater fault would palliate.

Dante Alighieri
- Shame
- Fault
- Palliate
I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should be every bit as poetry-worthy as angst, bitterness, and shame.

Delia Sherman
- Respect
- Human
- Consistent