Words matter. These are the best Shame Quotes from famous people such as Sebastian Arcelus, Martin Freeman, Liv Bruce, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Pierre Corneille, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I do love Christmas, although my wife puts me to shame. She is a huge Christmas fan, so we do love us some Christmas in our house.
It would be a shame for me if I were to become ‘Mr. Half-Hour Sitcom.’
I do think that for a queer person to speak truthfully without shame about their own experiences is political.
As far as I’m concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a shower, and I feel no shame. If I were to lose one, I’d grieve, and people would send sympathy cards, but it would be my condition that evoked the sympathy, not the fate of the leg. That’s like losing a dog.
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to.
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame’s is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
It’s very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I’m not made that way.
You’re at a party or an event, and you’re interacting with other people, but there’s no shame in getting your camera out and getting your perfect angle. It’s bizarre to me.
I have family in Ponce. It’s a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn’t able to be there with him.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
This is what shame does to women: It isolates us and makes us feel our stories aren’t really stories at all but idiosyncratic flaws.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.
Mr. Bachchan is too used to getting things done his way. I had always thought of him as an elegant, articulate, sophisticated, refined gentleman. What a let-down he was! What a shame!
Well, I haven’t really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the big movies we can’t shoot there. It’s just a shame that Arnold Schwarzenegger can’t deliver on this level.
Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.
Delhi – the entire north – has given me so much love. It has given me an identity, so I have no shame in being called a Delhi dude.
The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
I want to make sure that any young person or anyone, really, who is looking up to me – who sees a glimpse of who I am as a person – that they see no shame, that they see pride, and that I’m truly unabashed about the person that I am.
People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn’t help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people.
I loathe my name because it is mine and also because it is not mine; it is at once too intimate and seems to have no connection with me. Perhaps because the name is quite common, it never seems to fit me, or fit me alone. Nevertheless, when I see the name, I always feel a peculiar sense of shame.
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, ‘where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?’ We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It’s a real shame if we don’t spend our lives trying to do that.
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
What I loved about ‘Strictly’ as a viewer and contestant was that it was warm, family entertainment. So it is a shame for the show when controversy surrounds it. That is not what we like about ‘Strictly.’
I had a lot of guilt and shame when I was running from God, but nothing like when I was running for God. I was always looking for God’s approval, and that’s where the guilt and shame came out in a big way.
Family life is tough, I’ll say that for it. But in my case, I’ve mined the family. In a sense, I’ve used it. I’ve used what happened – the different events, the births of children, birthdays. Connecting, not connecting. Regret, shame, guilt. I mean, they’re all in the songs. And love, too, I hasten to add.
We had labels offering us deals the first year we formed – 1995 – but we were afraid of them going, ‘Let’s change this and that.’ We had labels telling us to get rid of our singer. I look back sometimes and go, ‘Imagine if we had done that-what a shame it would have been?’
I think if you have any fear or shame, it’s really hard to want to express yourself.
It’s very hard to shame people in Hollywood into anything because they don’t often feel that kind of shame.
I think everyone has shame about something, whether it’s a lack of a relationship with a child or maybe their weight or a lack of communication within their marriage. Everyone can relate to that because we all have something that we’re like, ‘God, I can work on that,’ or, ‘I wish I was better at doing this.’
We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that’s been a shame.
The ‘ideal’ body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.
It’s a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it shouldn’t be treated that way. Maybe it’s narcissism or something. I think we should always go back to it. I try and do a play a year, and I think that’s really helped me.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
I’ve always enjoyed visiting India and we usually go to Mumbai or Delhi a few times during the season. It’s a shame there is no race in India because it’s a great facility and I always enjoyed racing there.
I copied John Lennon; I copied a bit of David Bowie. It’s such a shame, and I’m so glad that now young girls have so many different role models in all different walks of life.
I had a lot of failed relationships, a lot of unhappiness, a lot of shame and embarrassment, bad self-image stuff.
Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.
I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it’s a shame that we couldn’t make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.
At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
I’ve got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it’s a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
We so often tend to think our democracies are ruled by procedures and laws, but they are also governed by implicit rules and assumptions and one of them is the ability to feel shame – that you can be shamed.
You guys might not know who Yves Edwards is, if you don’t, shame on you, go do some research.
It’s a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.
O Christ, on you the many-eyed cherubim are unable to look because of the glory of your countenance, yet out of your love you accepted spittle on your face. Remove the shame from my face, and grant me to have an unashamed face before you at the time of prayer.
