Shame Quotes - Page 36

• I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.

  Brennan Manning

  Prayer, Love You, Past

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• Love isn't meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.

  Jay Bell

  Life Is Too Short, Love Is, Meant To Be

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• Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Wish, Doe

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• The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it.

  Paul Ekman

  Opposites, Two, Wish

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• And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

  Oscar Wilde

  Winning, Games, Play

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.379, GENERAL PRESS

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• It was the emotion I hated the most of all emotions, shame.

  Sister Souljah

  Emotion, Hated

  Sister Souljah (2014). “A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• The joy of being a consumer is that it doesnt require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

  Matt Taibbi

  Responsibility, Self, Joy

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• Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Self, Confusion

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• that which is begun in self-confidence will end in shame.

  Richard Sibbes

  Self Confidence, Self, Ends

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.4247, Titus Books

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• It's a shame that humans don't come with reset buttons.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Reset Button, Buttons, Humans

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “Richard Paul Evans: The Complete Walk Series eBook Boxed Set: The Walk, Miles to Go, Road to Grace, Step of Faith, Walking on Water”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

  Arthur Golden

  Feelings, Tears, Tables

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• Those voices telling you that it's all wrong, and you should be louder or softer or more fashionable or marketable? Those are the bad voices. The only guide you can afford to listen to is the obsessive, lovestruck thing inside you that keeps insisting it finds some particular subject utterly fascinating. Do not shame this part of yourself. Take it by the hand and lead it to safety.

  Doris Egan

  Hands, Voice, Safety

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• I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Self, Issues, Guy

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• Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you are.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Feelings, Guilt, Done

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• I can't wait to do a fully improvised script again, to find people who are really comfortable and into it. It's about the capabilities of the people you're working with, what are their strengths and weaknesses. Some of the most brilliant actors need the spine of the text to work off of, and there's no shame in that; they're actors, not writers.

  Lynn Shelton

  People, Waiting, Weakness

  "Lynn Shelton On ‘Touchy Feely,’ Improvisation & Having Catherine Keener As A Casting Director". Interview with Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. May 2, 2013.

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• I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

  Herb Goldberg

  Meaningful, Hate, Self

  Herb Goldberg (1977). “The Hazards of Being Male: Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege”

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• There is no shame in falling down but there is pride in getting back up.

  Lilly Singh

  Fall, Pride, Getting Back Up

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• Persecute them. ... Let them be put to shame and perish. ... Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. ... Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

  Wiley Drake

  Children, Wife, Scary

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• I'm just made differently. Man, I just love being an American, I love my country. But it happened to me during the Nixon time, especially pre-Watergate, that as I watched Nixon for the first time in my life I felt shame. I had to analyze myself. What is this emotion? I realized that my government was separate from my country. It was the first time I ever felt ashamed of the government, not the country.

  John Fogerty

  Country, Love Is, Men

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• [To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!

  Carrie Nation

  Men, Smell, Smoking

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• A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name,
  Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame,
  A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb
  Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb;
  By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd,
  Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Names, Prison, Poor

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• What will you do when the Law of God comes in terror; when the trumpet of the archangel shall tear you from your grave; when the eyes of God shall burn their way into your guilty soul; when the great books shall be opened and all your sin and shame shall be punished... can you stand against an angry Law in that Day?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book, Eye, Law

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426”, p.1065, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Girl, Delicacy, Young

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.294, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame.

  Maude Royden

  Sex, Silly, Suffering

  Agnes Maude Royden (1924). “Sex and Common-sense”, p.3, Reprofis LLC

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• During the present interval between the feudal age and the coming time, when life and its occupations will be freely thrown open to women as to men, the condition of the female working classes is such that if its sufferings were but made known, emotions of horror and shame would tremble through the whole of society.

  Harriet Martineau

  Men, Class, Suffering

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.178

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