Shame Quotes - Page 29

• If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.

  J. M. Ledgard

  Men, Proportion, Dies

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• A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.

  Karl Marx

  Reality, Cells, Imagination

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.198, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mean, People, Wicked

  "A Long Fatal Love Chase". Book by Louisa May Alcott, 1995.

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• Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of time. Swift generations, that forget each other, Shall still keep up the memory of my shame Till I am grown an unbelieved fable.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Memories, Generations, Records

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.272

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• The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Scandal, Embarrassment

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I place us where we are a happy couple who are madly in love, and we are kissing the way people kiss on their wedding day. With joy and relief and love. Without guilt. Without Shame.

  A.S. King

  Couple, Kissing, People

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• Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were torn and riven. Elsewhere the last of the old growth the last of the world's own garment were ripped away. It was in this time, now, that the mother of us all was stripped naked and left to die in shame of her children, she who had been robed in glory like this, adorned like this. I bent my head upon the roots and wept, sorrowing for the trees.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Mother, Children, Rain

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• Shame is the raincoat over the soul repelling the living water of Jesus that would otherwise establish us as the beloved of God.

  Andrew Comiskey

  Jesus, Water, Soul

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• My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Prayer, Secret, Debt

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.20, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pride, Behinds, Coaches

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.

  Quentin Crisp

  Children, Father, Order

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 26, 1968.

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• A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

  Homer

  Men, Beggar

  Homer (1950). “The Complete Works of Homer: The Iliad”

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• Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.

  Homer

  Poor, Comrade

  Homer (1877). “The Odyssey”, p.118

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• There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Mother, Baby, Blood

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

  Aeschylus

  Eye, Knowing, Bed

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.391, Delphi Classics

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• Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds, And seen men put them all to shame with poor, half-hearted deeds. They follow Christ, but far away; they wander and they doubt. I'll serve him in a better way, and live his precepts out.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Prayer, Men, Doubt

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• Pryde will have a fall;For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.

  John Heywood

  Fall, Goeth

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• Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.

  Sophocles

  Home, Men, Pay The Price

  Sophocles (2017). “Antigone”, p.10, Youcanprint

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• It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Desire, Humans

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.124, Penguin

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• The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.

  Abraham Cowley

  Sleep, Thinking, Naps

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• Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

  Austin O'Malley

  Jail, Evil, Desire

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• Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies,
  And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies.
  How are the mighty fallen!
  Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears,
  Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears:
  Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim
  In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame
  Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe,
  With impious scorn insult our solemn woe.

  William Somervile

  Lying, Fall, Warrior

  "The Lamentation of David over Saul and Jonathan". Poem by William Somervile,

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• Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.

  Stefan Zweig

  Encounters, Add, Nerves

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.

  David

  Addiction, Waiting, Police

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• One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vanity, Honest, Oneself

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Christopher Middleton (1996). “Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.46, Hackett Publishing

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