Shame Quotes
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A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
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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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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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It’s just a shame that it had to be played that way.
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My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.
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No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment, or shame on the part of those receiving relief; we must be one great family of equals. The spiritual welfare of those on relief must receive especial care and be earnestly and prayerfully fostered. A system which gives relief for work or service will go far to reaching these ends.
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It’s a shame...you just don’t see young people doing anything outside these days.
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Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me. It's like I'm shrinking smaller and smaller and I can't stp it. There's just os much wrong that I can't imagine the shame in admitting even the tiniest part of it. When you left it was like there was this huge gap to fill, but instead of spreading wide enough to do it I just fell right in, and I'm still falling. Like I'm half-asleep, and I can't wake up, can't wake up.
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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.
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Shame is the raincoat over the soul repelling the living water of Jesus that would otherwise establish us as the beloved of God.
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Branne's Pavlovic parents wanted him to become a taxi driver, but he became a stand-up comedian instead. So they died of shame.
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Shame is pride's cloak.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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Incredible shame is associated with mental illness. People will confide the most intimate details of their love life before they'll mention a relative who had a serious mental breakdown. But the brain is just another organ. It's just a machine, and a machine can go wrong.
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We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."
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Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.
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Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.
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There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them are under seven years old.
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For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.
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There’s no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.
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In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame
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If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.
