Shame Quotes - Page 6

I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

The Jews are the most hateful and the most shameful of the small nations.

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear.

Shame is the root of all addictions.

I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer.

Life is, I think, a blunder and a shame.

A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb; By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd, Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.

It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall.

I am ashamed of my nation.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

The only shame is to have none.

Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody. There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.