Browsing Topic Best Shame Quotes

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Empathy is the antidote to shame.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

Sell. Don’t apologize for it and don’t be afraid to beg with a positive, up-beat attitude. Tell prospects you want their business and you will kick ass once you’ve earned it. Have no shame, pride doesn’t pay the rent.

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can’t use shame to change ourselves or others.

Empathy is the antidote to shame.

Nothing inhibits healing like shame.

Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

It’s a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they’ve demolished so many landmarks. It’s a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It’s a strange town, it’s this sprawling suburb, and then there’s a city, the old town.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.

Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

Self-compassion is key because when we’re able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we’re more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.

Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.

Child abuse is one of those issues that’s very difficult to talk about because it’s surrounded by guilt and shame and so on, but us avoiding that issue doesn’t help those kids in need out there who need support.

All men of goodwill have this in common – that our works put us to shame.

The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

The Water said to the dirty one, Come here. The dirty one said, I am too ashamed. The water replied, How will your shame be washed away without me?

Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through but I’ve never been ashamed to have been in one of those places. The shame is not mine; the church should be ashamed. They say now they’re sorry – what they mean is, sorry they were found out.

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

Sometimes a poem starts because I feel the urge to write about something from which I carry a great deal of shame, and I try to sketch out in writing how I am complicit in whatever dynamic it is I am illuminating. And sometimes it comes later, when I step back and challenge myself – am I being honest here?

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can’t use shame to change ourselves or others.

Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on. Man, not men. ~Equality 7-2521 (as Prometheus), pgs 103-104

I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.

People always say it’s a shame someone as talented as Ryan Giggs or George Best before him never played in a World Cup or European Championship and I don’t want my name to be added to that list.

There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.

I’m in love, sweet love. Feel me calling out your name, I feel no shame.

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.