personal shame Quotes

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. I regret that my shame is now shared by the people I cherish dearly.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

I think what can be most shameful or embarrassing is when our bodies broadcast a secret we'd prefer no one to know. This is why I hate rashes, in particular face rashes.

I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head.

That's good. I was worried. Of course, I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I keep inside. I'd hate to think they were obvious to anybody else. Especially at the swimming pool in the summer.

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.

I'm ashamed of what I did.

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.

My secrets are petty but humiliating.

Some of the things I've done in my life I'm ashamed of.

When I give lectures, people will wait behind until there is no one around and then tell me quietly, 'I seem to be one of those people who need eight or nine hours' sleep.' It's embarrassing to say it in public.

I think everyone has shame about something, whether it's a lack of a relationship with a child or maybe their weight or a lack of communication within their marriage. Everyone can relate to that because we all have something that we're like, 'God, I can work on that,' or, 'I wish I was better at doing this.'

I was ashamed. My son is a drug addict. What does this mean about me?

They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.

Nobody would want their lowest moment to be filmed for the world to see.

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.

When I first started, it was a dirty word to say you made clothes for people to wear... I was a little ashamed of it. You didn't always feel you were this amazing creative force.

I realize everyone has the image and perception that I was the worst person.

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.