Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.

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

I was so ashamed of who I was.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

I'm a gross human being.

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

It's hard to explain exactly what it feels like to be judged. There's a shame to it. Even when you know you're innocent. It still feels like you are coated in something dirty and evil.

I had such intense self-loathing for so long.

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

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.

The worst pain in the world is shame.

What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

When somebody says something bad about you, they feel bad about themselves in some way.

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

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.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

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