Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Shame. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Shame Quotes And Sayings by 82 Authors including William Shakespeare,Bangambiki Habyarimana,Stephanie Perkins,Kirsty Eagar,Louis Kronenberger for you to enjoy and share.
Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!
If you are proud for bad reasons, shame waits around the corner
Shame leads to secrets, and secrets lead to lies, and lies ruin everything.
Shame isn't a quiet grey cloud, shame is a drowning man who claws his way on top of you, scratching and tearing your skin, pushing you under the surface.
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.
The secret is I have no shame.
It is not easy to wash off the shame when it has already been glued to a person.
Shame... cannot survive empathy.
The longer you live, the greater your share of shame.
I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.
In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.
Only love can neutralize shame.
Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
I don't do proud.
Love defeats shame, every time.
While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.
Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.
The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.
Shame was one of those things that had to be excised like a cancer, but it was a hard thing to remove when it was wrapped around your heart.
Shame is a a choice Katie. It's not how I want you to feel or how God wants you to feel."~Asher Powell
I think that shame is a universal, paralyzing, painful emotion.
There's no room for shame here. Shame will be fucked out of you. Do you understand that?
What is shame?
You are shunned.
Faces are turned away from you.
They ignore you, as if you didn't exist.
You are naked.
Faces are turned toward you.
They stare at you, as if you were hideous.
You are worthless, and it's no secret.
Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
Shame internalized can lead to agony.
Stop making shame a virtue.
Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.
What is shame?
God identifies it. God experienced it. You are not alone.
It was the emotion I hated the most of all emotions, shame.
That's all I have left now, right? It's just me and my shame.
No need to feel shame for what you are.
My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.
Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.
There is no shame in ignorance and failing; there is only shame in not being willing to learn and repeating the same errors over again.
I get a small quiver of shame in my stomach whenever I remember it.
Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.
Shame, what was it? It was part of extreme delight. It was that part of delight of which man is usually afraid. Why afraid? The secret, shameful things are most terribly beautiful.
Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.
As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
Shame holds more value than coin ever can." He
...shame can do things to people's minds. It warps them from the truth, allowing them only to see what they want to see.
Nothing silences us more effectively than shame.
Less shame a greater fault would palliate.
Don't you feel shame? I thought scum like you could at least feel shame
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
There is no shame in failure. For a warrior the only shame is in not trying.)
I'm not involved in shame. Morals are learned in childhood, and I didn't have any such holiday called childhood.
We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it's dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.
The less you talk about your shame, the more of it you have.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Nothing to be proud of, nothing to regret.
Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.
There is no shame in what happened to you. There is only shame in being too much of a coward to carry on. In not realizing that what happened to you is not you. What happened is not the same as who you are.
The shame is in not improving when you have the opportunity!
My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.
Shame is the demon that keeps many of us trapped in our pain; healing comes when we gain the courage to confront our demon(s).
You wear your shame like a badge, because you don't have the balls to actually pin one on.
I'm trying to think of what I'm ashamed of. But, damn, I don't really have any shame.
Shame control us and our lives, it makes the choices we just state in spec and watch what's doing... as far as now it goes like a bot... auto!
What one is ashamed to do one should be ashamed to say.
Shame is a powerful feeling. There is a tremendous difference between making a mistake and believing you are a mistake...If I don't see myself as being a mistake then it is I who must take responsibility and I am not ready to accept that.
God can and will wipe all that shame and sadness away if you will only repent.
There's no shame in honest suffering, my dear.
Shame is the raincoat over the soul repelling the living water of Jesus that would otherwise establish us as the beloved of God.
Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret.
It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
Shame is not your friend. It depletes your power. Let go of shame and embrace your magnificence.
Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of our acts, real or imagined, and the secrets we keep about them.
it must hurt to know i am your most beautiful regret
The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport.
[Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]
Shame cannot exist in conditions of light, sunshine, and humor. So the very moment that you share your most shameful moments - and can learn to laugh about them - then the spell is lifted. And you, too, are free.
We live in a world of disposable memory, nothing's built to last, not even shame.
Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)
Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing we are flawed and therefore unworthy of acceptance and belonging.
Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.
It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.
What is shame?
The Son of God, while on a rescue mission of love, was
misunderstood
insulted
betrayed
denied
mocked
spit on
cursed
abandoned
stripped
crucified.
Shame, however, was what I felt seeping through me as though it stained my white bones black.
We all suffer our regrets.
A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.
Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
We all have unresolved shame, because it is used as a tool to control behavior.
Shame is the feeling you get when you believe that you're not worthy of anyone caring about you or loving you. That you're such a bad person that you can't even blame other people for not caring about you.
Shame forces us to put so much value on what other people think that we lose ourselves in the process of trying to meet everyone else's expectations. Shame:
Shame does something to a man. It makes him forget those he loves. It makes a good man do bad things.
Without guilt or remorse, shame was an empty emotion. Indeed, shame would not be shame.
It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.
The more shame, the more clicks; the more clicks, the more advertising dollars.
then simply held it while shame washed
Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
Never be ashamed of who you are. True shame always belongs to the person that enjoys being ashamed of who you are.
Today I will learn to reject shame. Shame is an overwhelming sense that who I am isn't good enough. I realize that I am good enough, and that my imperfections are part of being human. I let go of shame.