Marilynne Robinson Quotes

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

I can't stand reading anything that I've said.

What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.

You're making me feel like a skunk at the garden party.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

I'm so embarrassed by that album. I don't even own it myself.

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

I am sincerely mortified to be thus brought forward on the public stage against my love of silence … and my abhorrence of dispute.

Shameful.

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?

Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.

I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was no big surprise. On the other hand, usually I felt lame for no particular reason. This time I really had a reason to feel lame.

It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot.

I can't promise that I won't continue to embarrass people.

Leo felt trapped. He’d once been stuck in a cave on top of Pikes Peak, surrounded by a pack of werewolves. Another time he’d been stuck in an abandoned factory with a family of evil Cyclopes. But this — standing in an open clearing with a dozen pretty girls — was much worse.

Sorry,” he said, his voice thick and gruff. “It’s morning and you’re sitting on me. That’s a combination meant to bring any man down.

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

Embarrassment is the worst! It's the feeling of having your entire body go numb and not knowning what to do with yourself for that one moment

I just walked out of the room. I was like, I'm embarrassed, so I need to leave.

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much

I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.