Shame Quotes - page 3

Everybody's having fun, except me I'm the lonely one I live in shame. (Ozzy Osbourne)
My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns; Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns; The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals; The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls. View quote
Robert Southwell
I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label. I feel that if I was figuratively dropped on the Earth and there was a political line, I would be just left of center. The difference for me is that conservatives are more interested in property values and rights and free markets, and liberals are more interested in human rights. In the end, there are people who don't fit into the marketplace and are not equipped. I believe the government should step in where the free market fails. View quote
George Carlin
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having "smitten a sleeping enemy"; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack. View quote
Isoroku Yamamoto
St. Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame! View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame. View quote
Cicero
Shame on us if 100 or 200 years from now our grandchildren and great-grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by global warming, and they ask, 'How could those who came before us, who saw this coming, have let this happen? View quote
Joe Lieberman
I will never shame you. I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all. View quote
Robert Jordan
Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame. View quote
Tertullian
If you still have to ask, shame on you. (Louis Armstrong)
It is not human to be without shame and without desire. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear. View quote
Ramakrishna
To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard. View quote
Francis Fukuyama
I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear. View quote
Philip Roth
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. View quote
Henry Miller
I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me! Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to any one. I would be responsible to God alone―if He existed! View quote
Henry Miller
What is the main thing in love? To know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed. View quote
Marina Tsvetaeva
The difference between me and Bono is that he's quite happy to go and flatter people to get what he wants and he's very good at it, but I just can't do it. I'd probably end up punching them in the face rather than shaking their hand, so it's best that I stay out of their way. I can't engage with that level of bullshit. Which is a shame, really, and in a way it would help if I could, but I just can't. I admire the fact that Bono can, and can walk away from it smelling of roses. View quote
Thom Yorke
Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame. View quote
Ian McEwan
Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was simple. Find Cecilia and love her, marry her and live without shame. (Ian McEwan)
He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it. View quote
John of the Cross
The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame. View quote
Emil Cioran
We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is - on the brink of catastrophe - torn by polarizing hate and how it's a shame that we can't work together to get things done, but the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day! View quote
Jon Stewart
Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife Soon taught the sweet civilities of life. View quote
John Dryden