Shame Quotes

• He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Winning
  • Result
  • Labour

• A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Evil
  • Suffering
  • Repentance

• Shame on those artists who aren't proud of their achievements.

  

  Suzi Quatro
  • Proud
  • Shame
  • Achievements

• 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

• The Cutter leaned toward me, resting his forehead against mine. 'Fool me once,' he whispered, 'shame on you.' He pressed the bridge of his nose against mine, his breath burning the back of my throat. His voice was rough and furious. 'Fool me twice, and I will cut out your fucking throat.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Bridge
  • Breath
  • Burning

• A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Reason
  • Shame
  • Different Man

• The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Way
  • Knowledge
  • Shame

• Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are impervious to the repugnance of others. It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido... The junky's shame disappears with his nonsexual sociability which is also dependent on libido.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Dirty
  • Disappear
  • Absence

• If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the shame and reproach will be very great.

  

  Gerard de Ridefort
  • Retreat
  • Medieval
  • Reproach

• Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

  

  Tertullian
  • Nature
  • Fear
  • Soaks

• 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

• If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Evil
  • Enemy
  • Shame

• There's no shame in being crazy.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Crazy
  • Shame

• Shame on me, for me to have this platform and me to have this opportunity to stand up for something that I thought was unjust, and I passed on it. I can't do that.

  

  Andrew Hawkins
  • Opportunity
  • Shame
  • Passed

• They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Business
  • Gratitude
  • Remorse

• It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

  

  Gentry Lee
  • Humans
  • Direction
  • Infinity

• How many rappers in the game have "little" in front of their name? Lil' Wayne, Lil' Boosie it's a lil' shame Lil' Flip, Lil' Cease, yo they not the same Lil' Wyte, Lil' Mama, where Lil' Zane? Little Brother, Lil' Jon, and Lil' Fame Real hip hop, not about your lil' chain Lil' Keke, Lil' Kim a lil' freaky Lil' Fizz, Illegal with Lil' Maliky Lil' Mo, Lil' Bow Wow had beef with Lil' Romeo A lil' teenager told me so.

  

  Edward Anderson
  • Game
  • Name
  • Hip Hop

• He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely 'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!' 'For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.' 'No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that I don't feel pain.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • God
  • Pain
  • Satisfaction

• When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Period
  • Forgiveness
  • Shame

• These nutbags, like Santorum and Bachmann, who make these people and especially young gay kids feel miserable, shame on them. They're quacks. I would never vote for them. I wouldn't even listen to them because there but for the grace of God go they.

  

  Howard Stern
  • People
  • Kids
  • Gay

• O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Truth
  • Devil
  • Shame

• To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

  

  Al-Shafi‘i
  • Shame
  • Advise
  • Admonish

• Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • My Life
  • Shame
  • Painful

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