Ashamed Quotes - Page 14

• No one should be ashamed to speak up. Shame makes it easy for neglect and abuse and bullying to stay huddled together in their dark corner. It’s time to throw the switch on this spotlight. If I can inspire other kids to speak their truth, then everything I’ve been through will have been worth it.

  Susane Colasanti

  Bullying, Kids, Dark

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.121, Penguin

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• Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Father, Waiting, Doubt

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “Little Women”, p.86, Louisa May Alcott

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• I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.

  S.J. Watson

  Grief, Eye, Abandoned

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• And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, Way

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• I couldn’t move. It’s something I’m still ashamed of. You always wonder how you’ll handle a moment of crisis; if you’ve got what it takes to fight or if you’ve just been deluding yourself all along that somewhere deep inside you there’s steel beneath the magnolia. Now I knew the truth. There wasn’t. I was all petals and pollen. Good for attracting the procreators who could ensure the survival of our species, but not a survivor myself. I was Barbie after all.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Moving, Fighting, Survival

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• Bare your struggles very close to your heart and have them be a part of you that you’re proud of instead of something that you’re ashamed of.

  Lady Gaga

  Struggle, Heart, Proud

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• One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.

  Franz Kafka

  Hate, Moving, Men

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• The generals who had called Zia a mullah behind his back felt ashamed at having underestimated him: not only was he a mullah, he was a mullah whose understanding of religion didn't go beyond parroting what he had heard from the next mullah. A mullah without a beard, a mullah in a four-star general's uniform, a mullah with the instincts of a corrupt tax inspector.

  Mohammed Hanif

  Stars, Understanding, Four

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• Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life ahead of her--a life in which, if she persevered, she might do something special--and that part of persevering meant getting past moments just like this one, when people made you feel small, unlovable, and took away your confidence.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Past, People, Special

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.104, Macmillan

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• I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.

  Malorie Blackman

  Feelings, Wish, Might

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• There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.

  Brenda Ueland

  Passion, Feelings, Enthusiasm

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there's nothing I can do to stop her.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Memories, Believe, Hypocrite

  Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.203, Penguin Books India

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• Arturo Bandini: -What does happiness mean to you Camilla? Camilla: -That you can fall in love with whoever you want to, and not feel ashamed of it.

  John Fante

  Falling In Love, Mean, Doe

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• Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.

  J. K. Rowling

  Air, Quiet, Sometimes

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mistake, Lying, Ninety Nine

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• Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.

  Stephen Fry

  Proud, Life Is, Parts Of Life

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• The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Cancer, Stupidity

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.26, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Before every session, I take a moment to remember my humanity. There is no experience that this man has that I cannot share with him, no fear that I cannot understand, no suffering that I cannot care about, because I too am human. No matter how deep his wound, he does not need to be ashamed in front of me. I too am vulnerable. And because of this, I am enough. Whatever his story, he no longer needs to be alone with it. This is what will allow his healing to begin. (Carl Rogers)

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Healing, Men, Humanity

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• Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed.

  Laini Taylor

  Heart

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• What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

  Tyler Perry

  Where You Come, Life Is, This Life

  Tyler Perry (2007). “Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life”, p.20, Penguin

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• never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Writing, Funeral, Lines

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of the Island”, p.208, Youcanprint

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• I didn't feel sad or happy. I didn't feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I'd done wrong, in getting myself here, I'd done right.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Done, Proud, Spite

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.168, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Sober, Should

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Marcelle Clements (2013). “The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings”, p.41, Penguin

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• So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

  Anne Lamott

  Revolutionary, Shows, Subversive

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

  Jenna Blum

  Past, Way, One Way

  Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Elizabeth Benedict (2010). “The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels”, p.430, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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