Shame Quotes
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
William Hazlitt
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It’s a shame...you just don’t see young people doing anything outside these days.
William H. Macy
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It’s just a shame that it had to be played that way.
Bo Ryan
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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.
Esa Saarinen
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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.
Aron Flam
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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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Shame is pride's cloak.
William Blake
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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.
Isoroku Yamamoto
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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.
Candace Pert
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For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.
Elizabeth Inchbald
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My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.
William Shakespeare
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
William Hazlitt
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It's a shame that cancer has been something that's been accepted in society as something that's always gonna be there.
Kendall Schmidt Big Time Rush
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
Tertullian
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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!
Rudyard Kipling
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Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.
Tertullian
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Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.
Eloisa James
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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.
Charlie Jane Anders
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Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.
William P. Young
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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
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When a man and woman married, nothing they did together had any shame or immodesty. It was all in the name of God. There was fruitfulness and joy in it, and it followed the Creator's own plan for continuing the human race.
Naomi Ragen
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My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.
Erich Maria Remarque
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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."
Ray Bradbury
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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