Shame Quotes
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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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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
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If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.
Confucius
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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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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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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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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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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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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
Victor Hugo
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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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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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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
William Hazlitt
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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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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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I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.
Rebecca Loos
