Quotes about Shame

A vile race of quislings—to use the new word which will carry the scorn of mankind down the centuries.

To live is to betray the dead. We hasten to bury and forget them because we are ashamed; we feel guilty towards them.

Whoever is ashamed of marriage is also ashamed of being thought a man, or else he thinks that he can make himself better than God made him.

I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

Your a skid-mark on the underwear of humanity. -Ostin Liss

You're a skid-mark on the underwear of humanity. -Ostin Liss

The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don't even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, "What are you trying to teach me?" Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for "False Evidence Appearing Real." From Everything Belongs, p. 143

You're only as sick as your secrets.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.

When you were born you didn't know that you had a body, let alone that you should be ashamed of it.