Quotes and Sayings About Shame

If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.
-- Adam Duritz

#Distance #Life Is #Shame

Of all sweet passions Shame is the loveliest.
-- Alfred Douglas

#Sweet #Passion #Shame

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne

#Kissing #Missing #Shame

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
-- Alice Munro

#Real #Parent #Shame

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
-- Alison Bechdel

#Kind #Shame #Lifetime

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.
-- Alison Croggon

#Knowing #Shame #Willing To Learn

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.
-- Amanda Palmer

#Art #Clouds #Shame

Your only shame is to have shame.
-- Amy Tan

#Shame

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
-- Anais Nin

#Lying #Shame #About Yourself

There's an obsessive quality to it that I thought I would've  grown out of by now. It's an ongoing source of shame for me.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Quality #Ongoing #Shame

I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
-- Anne Lamott

#Fighter #Shame #Sand

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Pride #Demand #Shame

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
-- Aristotle

#Ornaments #Shame #Young

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
-- Aristotle

#Men #Benefits #Shame

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.
-- Atul Gawande

#Guilt #Done #Shame

Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.
-- Augusten Burroughs

#Childhood #Shame #Embarrassment

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.
-- Augusten Burroughs

#Shame #Hungry #Share

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.
-- Augusten Burroughs

#People #Firsts #Shame

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.
-- Bell Hooks

#Shame #Produce #Trauma

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.
-- Bell Hooks

#White #Tools #Shame

Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.
-- Ben Jonson

#Guilt #Shame #Guilty

Tell troth and shame the devil.
-- Ben Jonson

#Truth #Devil #Shame

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Money #Liberty #Shame

Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
-- Benjamin Whichcote

#Sin #Shame

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
-- Beth Ditto

#Bitter #Shame #Charming

When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.
-- Bill Cosby

#Girl #Boys #Shame

Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.
-- Bill Konigsberg

#Guilt #Shame #Who You Are

You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine
-- Billy Mays

#Rip #Shame #Shame On Me

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

#Sin #Shame #Decree

I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame.
-- Brad Paisley

#Lasts #Christmas Eve #Shame