Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

I have nothing to be ashamed of. And I love to talk about the things that I am ashamed of.

You've got to make a decision when you write about your life, and I decided I was going to be honest, and some of those things will be embarrassing.

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.

I like to think in an emergency situation, I'd act in a really brave way. But the truth is if I ever did get in a situation that looked remotely dangerous, I'd fall on my knees and start crying.

I don't really like being vulnerable.

I do have a little bit of trouble with candor around the things that I used to do. I think it's probably just resultant of shame and embarrassment and not wanting to be defined by the life that I used to live.

Strength, to me, is about exposing vulnerabilities and foibles and facts and people that are honest.

It's sometimes easier to do the impossible than to do the embarrassing.

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut.

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

Vulnerability is not weakness.

Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.

There aren't any embarrassing questions — just embarrassing answers.

I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.

I think it makes your stronger to admit that you're scared, because you're not scared to say that you're scared.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

I was always the first one to break. I'll admit it. I couldn't keep a straight face.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

I said it, just like that. No stupid jokes, no changing the subject. For once, I wasn't embarrassed, because it was the truth. I had fallen. I think I had always been falling. And she might as well know, if she didn't already, because there was no going back now. Not for me.