Shame Quotes
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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
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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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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.
Emily Bronte
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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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Shame is pride's cloak.
William Blake
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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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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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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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My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.
William Shakespeare
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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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If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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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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For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.
Elizabeth Inchbald
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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.
Andrew Comiskey
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
William Hazlitt
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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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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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Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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There’s no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.
Robin Williams
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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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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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Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.
Evan Davis
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In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.