Quotes About Humiliation

Most congressional bullying wasn't about bloodlust, although some blood was shed. It was grounded on the gut-wrenching power of public humiliation before colleagues, constituents, and the nation-at-large.

Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of her humiliation and the despair which possessed her, she still remained in some part of her soul aloof and untouched. It was the hard centre of her being which never altered. Nothing could touch that.

But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.

Ils se sentaient toutefois le droit de faire la leçon aux imprévoyants ou de menacer l'enfant que sa mère envoyait exprès aux courses à sa place en fin de semaine, sans argent : « Dis à ta mère qu'elle tâche de me payer, sinon je ne la servirai plus. » Ils ne sont plus ici du bord le plus humilié.

Je suis dans un état de douleur latente, de celle que masquent les insensibilisants pour un mal physique, écartelée par trois idées affreuses : 1) ne plus jamais le revoir Ã¢â'¬â€œ 2) avoir « perdu » plusieurs mois dans une passion non partagée Ã¢â'¬â€œ 3) humiliation de n'être plus autant désirée, admirée, par rapport aux premiers mois. Les réveils dans la nuit sont noirs.

I just think humiliation really causes more harm than maybe being physically beaten.

To conceive of myself from the outside was my ruin – the ruin of my happiness. I saw myself as others see me, and I despised myself – not because I had character traits that made me worthy of contempt, but because I saw myself through the eyes of others, and felt the contempt they feel towards me. I experienced the humiliation of knowing myself.

However, when you're about to write something, knowing beforehand that it's sure to be imperfect, a failure, that is the most spiritually tormenting and humiliating of feelings. I not only feel that the lines I write are unsatisfactory, I know that I will find any lines I write in the future equally unsatisfactory

Twice in my adolescence – which I feel so remotely it seems like someone else's story that I read or was told – I enjoyed the humiliating pain of being in love.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

By becoming one of the poor who was deprived of his rights, by dying as one of those robbed of justice, God's Son submitted to the utmost extremity of humiliation, entering into total solidarity with those who are without help.

When you get a bad review, you hate the writer. It's very painful; whoever says the opposite lies. It's humiliating. Sometimes it comes from an honest place, but most times, it comes from a desire to trash someone.

My wife sent her photograph to the lonely hearts club. They sent it back, said they weren't that lonely.

When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.

I was spending all my time at the 'Crimson' - like, 70 hours a week - and I didn't go to class for, like, a year. I failed out of school. I had to leave Harvard, really, halfway through my tenure as the 'Crimson' managing editor. It was this incredibly humiliating and shocking experience.

I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter, and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness.

arrodillarme, yo apoyaba el pecho en el asiento de la silla, tomaba mi cabeza entre sus rodillas y, de pronto, crueles latigazos me cruzaban las nalgas. Cuando me soltaba, corría llorando a mi cuarto. Una vergüenza enorme me hundía el alma en las tinieblas. Porque las tinieblas existen aunque usted no lo crea.

Alala! I have no cloth to wrap me. The kites will see that I am naked. I am ashamed to meet all these people.

Infinite humiliation and grace, and then a striving born of gratitude — this is Christianity.

When we continually focus on the wrongs other members of the family or broader society have inflicted upon us, the unfairness, the pain, the humiliation of it all can make it so difficult to move forward into compassion. Forgiveness is rarely about others. We forgive for our own spiritual welfare.

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls.

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as persons. In any case, I don't know of a single person who enjoyed this respect as a child and then as an adult had the need to put other human beings to death.