Top Shame Quotes

  • End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame. – David Carr

    End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.– David Carr

  • Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it. – John Grisham

    Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.– John Grisham

  • This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong. – Atul Gawande

    This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.– Atul Gawande

  • Without guilt or remorse, shame was an empty emotion. Indeed, shame would not be shame. – Sylvain Reynard

    Without guilt or remorse, shame was an empty emotion. Indeed, shame would not be shame.– Sylvain Reynard

  • You can’t shame a shameless man, you can only remind him of the awesome shit he’s done. – Captain Perverto

    You can’t shame a shameless man, you can only remind him of the awesome shit he’s done.– Captain Perverto

  • we are all half fool, half wise , there is no wisdom without foolishness and no pride without shame . – Elif Shafak

    we are all half fool, half wise , there is no wisdom without foolishness and no pride without shame .– Elif Shafak

  • His hair was red, and his eyes were a color blue that put the ocean to shame. – Embee

    His hair was red, and his eyes were a color blue that put the ocean to shame.– Embee

  • I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment. – John Fowles

    I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.– John Fowles

  • If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive. – Bren Brown

    If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.– Bren Brown

  • Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.- And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet. – Jean Plaidy

    Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.- And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.– Jean Plaidy