62 Quotes About Disgrace

We can learn personal humility from episodes that generate shame and guilt. After retiring from worldly affairs and drawing useful lessons from personal disgrace, we must resume living an expedient life devoted to appreciating truth, beauty, and love.

By out-talking or bad-mouthing people, some get hoisted by their own petard, ultimately. When their sense of shame makes them crawl back to the open, they can only recover through a convalescing remedy of humbleness. After an exhausting journey throughout the scorching desert of disgrace, they come to know how to be reborn from themselves. This rebirth allows them to recognize their true selves and to become relatable again. ("Waiting for emancipation")

If you come away with me, I can promise you pain and disgrace,” I said. “But I will love you like no other can.

If we had to speak our mind face to face,Would we be as courageous to ridicule and lambaste?Would we with sharpened tongues be so quick to disgrace?If we had to speak our minds face to face

Ci vuole sempre la disgrazia per aprire gli occhi alla gente

It is better to wait until you get the right thing, at the right time and in the right place; than to race for the wrong thing, at the wrong time and in the wrong place, for it yields nothing but disgrace.

Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences, and we only care what opinion is held of us because of the people who form that opinion, it follows that the people before whom we feel shame are those whose opinion of us matters to us.

Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.

When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I take out my notebook and write.