Quotes About Humiliation

Tory was starting to feel a little foolish standing here with her hands in the air. It was like the whole bar had assembled to watch her nails dry. Why didn't someone say something?

I wish kids at school would quit calling me a porno dork-face, though. There wasn't any sex involved! I got knocked out, I panicked and called the cops. Okay, somewhere along the line everybody's clothes fell off, but that's not exactly a federal crime. Is it? I hope you don't work for the FBI. (You don't, do you?) - Email Excerpt (Page: 21) From: Douglas Bracken To: Dr. Rita I. Milton Sent: Friday, November 08 - 5:05 PM Subject: Pressing Concerns

What a shock it had been when she began to grow invisible to men and they no longer registered her. How humiliating to discover time had abducted her favorite version of herself and replaced it with a saggy middle-aged woman instead.

To be poor in New York was humiliating, a little; but to be young—to be young was divine.

Lon had lost another West Point friend and comrade-in-arms. The war seemed far from resolution, and the humiliations of the most recent battle made the deaths of the noble Dimick and Kirby difficult to accept.

Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.

Whether one says: the body of humiliation is transformed into a body of glory, or says, the corruptible puts on incorruption, the mortal immortality, makes no difference whatever as to the principle of continuity.

El autor muestra ahora que la humillación de Cristo era necesaria para su glorificación. Nosotros le vemos coronado de gloria y honor, a causa de sus sufrimientos y muerte.

Ma'am? The worst insult known to womankind.

WILLIAM THE EVER RANDY, as the shitheads here had started calling him

He was so accustomed to being in the middle of the action it still took him a second to realize that they were waiting for him, Chase Lomax, to get out of the way. He couldn't help them? He'd hinder their rescue—a small woman and a skinny kid? Right. He would. Feeling unreasonably humiliated, he lifted his crutches and clunked his way out into the aisle.

Kostchei looked at her,his eyes liquid ice, and Irene found herself stuttering to a halt and closing her mouth. He had more presence in that glare than some Fae lords she'd faced down. It wasn't psychic powers, as some people would have described them. It was simply alpha teacher, channelled with a side order of extra ice and public humiliation, and it worked far too well.

I mean, public humiliation was the worst possible punishment I could think of for ME. And also for anybody with a brain.

The result, in Mark's Gospel, is a balanced account of Jesus' mission that in its turn forms the basis for a realistic assessment of what it means to be Jesus' disciple. It is a theology in which rejection and triumph, humiliation and glory, meet in the new scale of values of the Kingdom of God.

People get upset over many things. Frustrating jobs, small paychecks, bad hours. People want things; people feel humiliated by others who have the things they want; people feel deprived and powerless. All this gives fuel to rage. The anger builds and builds and if there is no outlet for it, pretty soon it transforms the person. They walk around like a loaded gun, ready to go off if only they could find the right target. They want to hurt something. They need it.

There are mysterious agencies of the human mind which, like roving gases, travel the world, causing pain and mutilation, without their owners having any full awareness, or even any awareness at all, of the strength and the whereabouts of these exhalations... So it is that we can be terrors to each other, and people in lonely rooms suffer humiliation and even damage because of others in whose consciousness perhaps they scarcely figure at all.

You are heroic, Mr. Lynch-Gibbon. The knight of infinite humiliation. One does not know whether to kiss your feet or to recommend that you have a good analysis. She said it as one might say a good thrashing.

So it is that we can be terrors to each other, and people in lonely rooms suffer humiliation and even damage because of others in whose consciousness perhaps they scarcely figure at all.

Ah take some more crass humiliation for what seems like an eternity.

People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions.

He didn't believe that, surely." "Of course not! But he had to pretend he did, as otherwise he would have had no choice but to be insulted. And since there would be nothing he could do about that, being insulted would only lead to humiliation. And since he didn't want that, the simplest path to follow was to believe what I said.

You feel humiliated, my young man, because thinking you understood so much so well, you suddenly find that many very apparent things were unknown to you. Thinking you were one of the Lords of the Galaxy; you suddenly find that you stand near to destruction. Naturally, you will resent the ivory tower in which you lived; the seclusion in which you were educated; the theories on which you were reared.

Tenía un alma atormentada. Sentía gusto en la humillación y en las labores abyectas, creía que iba a obtener el cielo por el medio terrible de sufrir iniquidades, por eso se complacía limpiando las pústulas de las piernas enfermas de su madre, lavándola, hundiéndose en sus olores y en sus miserias, escrutando su orinal.

Por qué me rechazaste, Indi? Me has hecho sufrir, me humillaste. Yo quería ser el hombre de tu vida; en cambio he tenido que resignarme a ser el hombre de tu muerte.