Shame Quotes
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Yes has been sleeping in this kind of awful mode that I think is slightly disrespectful to our beautiful fans. It's all ... political is not the right word, but it's all contrary to different people's opinions of what's right and what's wrong. I think that's really a shame.
Steve Howe Yes
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And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.
Abolqasem Ferdowsi
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There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don
Steve Waugh
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Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn you of. It is technically called carpet-gardening. Need I explain it further? I had rather not, for when I think of it, even when I am quite alone, I blush with shame at the thought.
William Morris
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Shame on those artists who aren't proud of their achievements.
Suzi Quatro
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Less shame a greater fault would palliate.
Dante Alighieri
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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
Victor Hugo
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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
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Some things you can fix, and some things you can't. And I just think it is a shame to walk away from the things you can.
Dana Reinhardt
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I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. I’m obsessed with horror films. I know what shame feels like. And guess what old man? Jesus is still my Savior.
Hayley Williams Paramore
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Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.
Claude Lelouch
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When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.
Amy Poehler
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Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)
Walt Whitman
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Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.
Kate Thornton
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If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.
Confucius
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When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.
Gautama Buddha
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I think about some of the novels I love - The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni's Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley. I think I'm more intrigued by characters who don't do the right thing and where we are allowed to identify with their shame/dishonesty/envy... whatever.
Danzy Senna
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I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.
Rebecca Loos
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There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!
Seneca the Younger
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Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame - living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.
Andrew Comiskey
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It’s just a shame that it had to be played that way.
Bo Ryan
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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