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Quotes About Humiliation

si odiano sempre i testimoni della propria umiliazione e della propria inutilità. [...]
~ Winston Graham
The fear of dying is not just the terror of pain, the humiliation of the loss of faculties, the fall into the abyss . . . but the primeval fear that afterwards one might remember it. The
~ Christopher Priest
Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience's opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.
~ Chuck Jones
Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
He shook his head, ripping his hands free. "I just went to pick it up." He felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a ROCK.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Every day that I don't beg Cardan for forgiveness over a feud he started is a day I win. He can humiliate me, but every time he does and I don't back down, he makes himself less powerful. After all, he's throwing everything he's got at someone as weak as I am and it's not working. He's going to take himself down.
~ Holly Black
You think because you can humiliate me, you can control me?
~ Holly Black
Cardan grabs my face, fingers splayed against my neck. His breath is against my cheek. His other hand grabs my hair, winding it into a rope. --- "Get down on your knees," Cardan says, looking insufferably pleased with himself. His fury has transmuted into gloating. "Beg. Make it petty. Flowery. Worthy of me.
~ Holly Black
she could be more humiliated, it turned out that no matter how far you fall, there's always a lower place.
~ Holly Black
If he gets himself killed like this, she is never going to let him live it down.
~ Holly Black
Crees que yo planeé tu humillación? —Se ríe—. ¿Yo? Eso implicaría esforzarse.
~ Holly Black
After all the humiliations I have suffered, all the things I have done for my mistresses at their commands, here I am in a dirty human restaurant, serving coffee to fools. For Kaye. Because I am free to. Because I think it would please her. Because I think it would make her laugh.' 'It's definitely going to make her laugh,' Corny said. 'Thus I am saved from my own grim self,' Roiben said, shrugging his shoulders, a small smile lifting his mouth.
~ Holly Black
For a moment, a desire for vengeance rises in me. Once, she laughed at my humiliation. Now I could gloat before hers. This is what power feels like, pure unfettered power. It's great.
~ Holly Black
I spend the night that way, passing through layers of anxiety, humiliation, and despair. Somewhere close to dawn I lose some consciousness. It isn't sleep exactly, but I have to think of it as sleep because it's all I ever get anymore.
~ Lily King
One should not chug an entire glass of wine at an elegant dinner party. I start hacking and coughing, having practically water-boarded myself out of sheer humiliation.
~ Unknown
And she knows him well enough to know that he would be humiliated if he found out about her affair with Scarlett and that that humiliation would spill over into anger and that he is strong and he is already only one flash away from hurting her, constantly.
~ Lisa Jewell
Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.
~ Jeff Lindsay
I'm having a birthday party. Do you want to come?" Evie glanced at the invitation. "Thanks, but no." She didn't use any excuses, just said it simple and straight, handing my humiliation right back to me, thanks but no thanks.
~ Jess Lourey
I've always been surprised at how it stings, the laughter of small men. The smaller the man, the more the laughter hurts, as if saying, I may be nothing, but you are less.
~ Jess Walter
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
~ Christopher Hampton
Employment in the private sector company largely means slavery, poor salary, no job security, no appreciation, exploitation, harassment ,humiliation, eventually to be thrown out of the organization for no valid reason.
~ Unknown
There are two kinds of employees-those who do the work and those who take the credit. Be in the first group and face exploitation with humiliation only ; Get in the second group and reach fast to the position of the president or director in the private organization and have fun.
~ Unknown
A thought came to her that had insisted on settling with her for some time now, a thought that would anger Michel if she ever told him. Given a choice, she would rather be the one who was persecuted than the one who did the persecuting-- both had a terrible price to pay, but she would rather endure humiliation and fear than grow numb to what it was to be human.
~ Ursula Hegi