875 Quotes About Shame

It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from.

Maybe what shame needs to stay alive is the consent of the shamed.

If shame had a face, I think it would kind of looked like mine... If it had a home, would it be my eyes?

If you are ashamed of others knowing about your failures, the best way is to fight your failures & not the people, your success will change people’s opinion but only the efforts will convert failures into success.

She kept saying, "My husband will be back soon. He went for help. He'll be back." But that's the kind of lie people tell sometimes when they got only strangers to rely on. There's shame in that, so people lie.

There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing they are, the more picturesque, so to speak, but there are crimes that are shameful, disgraceful, all horror aside, so to speak, even far too ungracious...

It was a crying shame!

Shame doesn't affect the shameless ones.

Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators but they don't carry it the way the victims do.