875 Quotes About Shame

What is beauty but nakedness unashamed of itself?

I hid my struggles. Why? Because I didn't think it was supposed to go down like that. And because too many Christians I know lived by the same lie and condemned, shamed, and rejected other Christians who messed up.

...we all have some things we are ashamed of.

Secrets can't consume you, but watch for the shamethat closes your lips in the first place.

I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame

To know shame is to be human. And to have the capacity for empathy is also to be human.

Men canreturn to where they have done evil deeds,but men do not return to where they’ve beenabased. On this point God’s design and ourown feeling of abasement coincideso absolutely that we quit: the night,the rotting beast, the exultant mobs, our homes,our hearthfires, Bacchus in a vacant lotembracing Ariadne in the dark.

They had grown up on shame; it was the nutrient of their soil.

Shame, as an emotion, has a core meaning, in relating individuals to wider social groups and norms -- real or imagined.