Danny Bonaduce Quotes

I was so ashamed of who I was.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

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

A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

I'm a gross human being.

Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.

As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy... I really tortured myself.

If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.

If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.

I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work.

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

I've spent my life being embarrassed.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

I don't get embarrassed.

Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you are.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.