Shame Quotes
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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.
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Shame is the root of all addictions.
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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.
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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.
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Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.
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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.
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If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.
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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.
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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.
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For instance, one big issue in hip hop is the gay thing. It's 2013, and it's a shame that, to this day, that topic still gets people all excited. It's crazy. And it makes me upset that this topic even matters when it comes to hip hop, because it makes it seem like everybody in hip hop is small-minded or stupid - and that's not the case.
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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.)
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Shame on those artists who aren't proud of their achievements.
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When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.
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Less shame a greater fault would palliate.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.
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Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.
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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.
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They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.
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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.
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It’s a shame...you just don’t see young people doing anything outside these days.
