875 Quotes About Shame

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.

Never be timid about your own pleasure. Don't be ashamed to come.

I won’t claim I’ve never in my life done anything I’m ashamed of, but I haven’t done anything for a good while. If not everyone would agree with the decisions I’ve made, that’s fine. What other people think has never made a situation right or wrong.

When we are experience shame we are often thrown into crisis mode...In this mode, the neocortex is bypassed and our acess to advanced, rational, calm thinking and processing of emotion all but disappears...we find ourselves becoming aggressive, wanting to run and hide and feeling paralyzed...

He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, ‘Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him'.

Shame Sucker! You suck my joy away!You suck my fun away!You suck my happiness away!Shame, you suck!

Do not humiliate people, shame is a lifetime lasting effect that can be nursed but can never be cured.

Are you a part of a herd? Then shame on you! Until you leave your herd, you are no one!

[L]ove ... privileges another to see us in ways that would shame us and disgust others without the intervention of love.