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Quotes About Humiliation

Love in my case is not indispensable to pleasure, nor is respect. Is it possible, therefore, that the disgust, the humiliation begin afterward, when a man subdues you and violates you at his pleasure solely because now you belong to him, love or not, respect or not?
~ Elena Ferrante
I'm laughing, I apologized, at the situation, at you, who've wanted to kill Nino forever, and at me, who if he showed up now would say to you: Yes, kill him. I'm laughing out of despair, because I've never been so offended, because I feel humiliated in a way that I don't know if you can imagine, because at this moment I'm so ill that I think I'm fainting.
~ Elena Ferrante
A tangle of resentments, the sense of revenge, the need to test the humiliated power of my body were burning up any residue of good sense.
~ Elena Ferrante
They had all known one another a long time, they knew they were complicit victims, and they had no doubt about who the whistleblower was: she, the only one who behaved from the start as if the need to work didn't go hand in hand with the need to be humiliated.
~ Elena Ferrante
ci comunicava così un amore devotissimo, era evidente che gli piaceva ricordare a se stesso e agli altri la straordinarietà della sua donna, mentre mio marito non mi lodava mai, anzi mi riduceva a madre dei suoi figli, voleva che pur avendo studiato non fossi capace di pensiero autonomo, mi umiliava umiliando ciò che leggevo, ciò che m'interessava, ciò che dicevo, e pareva disposto ad amarmi solo a patto di dimostrare di continuo la mia nullità.
~ Elena Ferrante
Soon she'll start yelling, I thought, soon she'll hit her, trying to break that bond. Instead, the bond will become more twisted, will strengthen in remorse, in the humiliation of having shown herself in public to be an unaffectionate mother, not the mother of church or the Sunday supplements.
~ Elena Ferrante
como os homens eram grosseiros, como eram brutais em cada palavra que dedicavam ao amor. Tinham satisfação em nos humilhar e em nos arrastar por seu caminho de baixezas.
~ Elena Ferrante
But at the same time I was grateful for the small dose of humiliation and pain he had inflicted on me. I went around the bed, sat on the edge beside him, and masturbated him. He let me do it, with his eyes closed. He ejaculated without a moan, as if he were feeling no pleasure.
~ Elena Ferrante
ANDREW: Now, the shortest way to a man's heart is humiliation. You soon find out what he's made of.
~ Anthony Shaffer
Naturally, nobody mentioned his infidelities, his treachery, his tendency toward domination and humiliation, his utterly mercenary approach to most art, his yelling, his firing people on a whim, his inability to or lack of desire to recognize the inner lives of others, his avarice, his all-around tendency to make
~ Antoine Wilson
She wants to shake him, to feel the danger again and be capable of rejecting it, or to spare herself the pity she feels for him, the self pity she sees in him, the humiliation of having lost her and not being desired by her.
~ Antonio Munoz Molina
A person who has an empathetic compassion, endured a lot of unwarranted insult and humiliation, gone through an economic struggle to earn ration and is against pageantry fashion can be a great comedian.
~ Anuj Somany
A talented employee can be made to work without an increment and promotion for a few years ,but not even for a year with the harassment and humiliation by an employer in any organization.
~ Anuj Somany
An employer who does the generation of a lot of employment is worth applauding, but a company's owner who along with the creation of many jobs does harassment & humiliation of its employees deserves a lot of loathing.
~ Anuj Somany
He who has actually suffered humiliation in own life despite being nice to others is a lexicon of wise words.
~ Anuj Somany
Salary and Slavery rhyme with each other and the prime thing often witnessed in the private sector company; the bluffers, credit snatchers and duffers enjoy their life a lot whereas an intelligent and diligent suffers the harassment or humiliation the most.
~ Anuj Somany
The comedy stems out of the tragedy only ; a person who has not seen the humiliation, harassment and pain in life can't be truly a good comedian.
~ Anuj Somany
The first rule to fuel and flourish the slavery at the workplace is to put the fool at the senior most post to make him enjoy life full and place the talents from school at his subordinates position and let him harass and humiliate them by making them work as asses and mules.
~ Anuj Somany
When a person at the peak powerful position of the nation/organization is himself illiterate/semi-illiterate/phony-graduate;how can people expect that he will appreciate/support/promote those well-educated/right/bright individuals working as sub-ordinates. In fact, he would rather humiliate/denigrate/demote those talents to come out of his own inferiority complex.
~ Anuj Somany
How humiliating it is to encounter the fearful side of your psyche only to succumb like a blithering fool. My embarrassment at not being able to heal myself truly devastating.
~ April Crawford
Is that you? When you fail, are you too humiliated or ashamed to ask for help? When you suffer, are you too embarrassed to ask for more support and comfort?
~ Art Berg
I have lived poverty. I didn't choose it. No one would choose humiliation, pain, and rage.
~ Carolyn Chute
Pienso que nunca antes me habías humillado tanto con tus expresiones, ni habías demostrado más fehacientemente tu desprecio (p. 64)
~ Franz Kafka
If only I could tell someone. The humiliation I go through when I think of my past can only be described as grace. We are created by being destroyed.
~ Franz Wright