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Quotes About Humiliation

When I was at school I got lines for dropping a big squelchy, loud fart. My teacher, who was a priest, made me write 'I must not fart in class' 100 times. I left that school shortly afterwards.
~ Brian McFadden
Herir y ser consciente de que se hiere, saber que es una necesidad, lo encuentro intolerable. No tengo la valentía de June. Lucho por evitarle a Hugo toda humillación.
~ Anais Nin
Dezgustat? de pozitivismul vieÅ£ii,sufletul s?u închis ÅŸi umilit începea s? iubeasc? poezia.Lua drept poetic tot ceea ce o ajuta s? evadeze din via??.
~ Andre Gide
She tried to stand but he had her by the hair and with his other hand he was jerking back and forth on himself, and she couldn't breathe and then he let out a groan as warm spurts fell wetly across her cheek and nose and eye, and Davey was laughing as if he'd just scored points in a game, and Luke let go of her hair and she fell back on her hands.
~ Andre Dubus III
Send the shears flying and they'll always find their way up the gardener's ass.
~ Andrea Camilleri
Des Pres says it is easier to kill if "the victim exhibits self disgust; if he cannot lift his eyes for humiliation, or if lifted they show only emptiness... " There is some pornography in which women are that abject, that easy to kill, that close to being dead already.
~ Andrea Dworkin
What god has enough free time to arrange this very special humiliation, to fly a minor novelist across the world so that he can feel, in some seventh sense, the minusculitude of his own worth?
~ Andrew Sean Greer
What to say? That I would have loved to make the trip but was busy staying out of the mental hospital? It's so humiliating—so degrading. If I knew I wouldn't get caught, I'd love to lie about it—invent an acceptable cancer, that recurs and vanishes, that people could understand—that wouldn't make them frightened and uncomfortable.
~ Andrew Solomon
He was a caricature of a caricature of a loser.
~ Ann Brashares
As Beaumarchais gathered blankets and grenades in France, William Howe's redcoats came ashore and slaughtered Washington's forces on Long Island, in Brooklyn, and then in Manhattan. A humiliated Washington could do nothing to stop his troops' shoddy retreat from Kips Bay, swatting at them with his horsewhip and howling, "Are these the men with which I am to defend America?
~ Sarah Vowell
For fifteen years the Soviet Union has been supporting the Arabs against Israel in the Middle East and all they have to show for it is the humiliation of their protégés and the capture and destruction of their equipment by Israel. The Arabs have shown no inclination toward Communist ideology and their oil continues to flow to the West.
~ Saul Bellow
There is really no end to life's little humiliations.
~ Lev Grossman
You know what freaks me out? Having your personal life live-tweeted so that everyone can make fun of you forever.
~ Lucy DeCoutere
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
1. We fear people because they can expose and humiliate us. 2. We fear people because they can reject, ridicule, or despise us. 3. We fear people because they can attack, oppress, or threaten us. These three reasons have one thing in common: they see people as "bigger" (that is, more powerful and significant) than God, and, out of the fear that creates in us, we give other people the power and right to tell us what to feel, think, and do.
~ Edward T. Welch
As a criminal law; a thief bears a penalty for its crime; conversely, a literary thief enjoys the profitability of plagiarism-crime as self-exception from its moral-corruption, and humiliation of inner voice and conscience.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Do not expect any sober result from those figures, who insist and persist openly and publicly of personal and private talks that would humiliate you in the eyes of others. Do not doubt; they are your opponents or enemies, and never trust them, who stay behind the curtain and claim to be something. Consider them fake and dangerous, and get away for your interests, safety, and respect.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Evil-controlled people come to humiliate and insult the right people. Such people's poor background and ugly intentions are the main reasons that they cannot live without these practices. Forgiveness is their defeat and punishment.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Promises of the leader before election build expectations in the mind of voters, after winning the election, those cause humiliation in the eyes of voters if the leader fails to fulfil that. Therefore, fly not so high that you cannot land easily; be honest with yourself.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The black rule, in the White House hands. Indeed, it shows the humiliation of the United Nations and human rights. The world observes that nonsense silently.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The discrimination does not only relate to the creed, caste, and colour, but that also describes the severe attitude if one respects higher class and humiliates the lower or middle class in any shape.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
feel ridiculous," she muttered. "And I feel like a jerk for getting thrown
~ Eileen Goudge
Had it really been so wonderful? I knew very well that at that time, too, there had been shame. And uneasiness, and humiliation, and disgust: accept, submit, force yourself. Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.
~ Elena Ferrante