Anthony Ray Hinton Quotes

Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

I was so ashamed of it that I would spend hours in the shower crying and trying to wash my skin off.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

At times, here at Milan, I have felt humiliated.

I had such intense self-loathing for so long.

I've hated myself since I knew my own name. But 'Bake Off' has simply confirmed to me what a bottom-feeding halfwit I am.

See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.

It was the emotion I hated the most of all emotions, shame.

In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

I was wracked with insecurity.

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

I've spent my life being embarrassed.

When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

I'm very insecure.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.