Shame Quotes

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.

~ M.l. Stedman

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

~ Jenna Blum

Embarrassing facts, those would really help our children remember their classroom lessons better.

~ Bauvard

[W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers

~ Anton Chekhov

Fool me once, shame on youfool me twice, shame on mefool me thrice, I'm gonna get the frying pan!

~ Anthony Liccione

I’ve realized, though, we can either choose to be vulnerable or have moments of vulnerability sneak up on us. Like when you’re happily alone, strutting around your house naked, but then hear a sound. Suddenly, the comfort and confidence you felt in your own skin evaporates. You run to the nearest room, hurrying to shut the door. Then you wait, and listen quietly for an opportunity to make an escape. Your mind races trying to think of an excuse for your current nude state. You’re embarrassed.But, if you live your life listening for the Lord, obeying when He asks you to be vulnerable, you never have to worry about being walked in on. Your soul is ready to be seen. And, He won’t allow your life to be marked by shame or embarrassment.

~ Katie Kiesler

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!

~ Brené Brown

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody taught me to be like this. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world, I have never slept with a man. Never. Just imagine what purity. I have nothing to be ashamed of.[2000]

~ Chavela Vargas

But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.

~ Jonathan Maberry

Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.

~ Kathryn Stockett

There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out.

~ Habeeb Akande

The shame of living extends its tentacles around my dreams.

~ Anne De Gandt

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

~ A.j. Liebling

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

~ Brené Brown

It's all about communication and a dialogue between individuals - get rid of the labels, get rid of the shame, get rid of the stigmas and just be your most authentic self.

~ Matt Bomer

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

~ Izaak Walton

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

~ Horace

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

~ Brené Brown

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

~ Anacharsis

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

~ Anne-Marie Slaughter

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

~ Sydney Pollack

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

~ Benjamin Franklin

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

~ Dick Gregory