Quotes About Humiliation

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.

A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.

Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.

That awkward moment when you realize someone was actually home the whole time you were singing on the tops of your lungs.

It had been an embarrassing moment, like the one you get when you realize for the first time that you have what it takes to become an accountant.

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

If Jesus' death is different, it is not because he suffered more than other martyrs, either physically or spiritually, nor because his death was lonelier, or more humiliating, or more gruesome (despite Mel Gibson's heroic attempt to render it so). This common idea is quite mistaken. Such considerations are not what make Jesus' death unique. The uniqueness of his death is found in its meaning

A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive. My heart turned bitter within me. I could understand why Negroes are led to sympathize with even their worst criminals and to protect them when possible.

Gertie hit the brakes and tried to stop, but she tripped over a lip in the sidewalk and went sprawling right into the burro, then hit the pavement, her tutu skirt flipped up over her back, exposing her camouflage underwear. Tiny swung his head around to see what all the racket was and launched off the car door, setting off down the sidewalk toward the burro-Gertie wreck at high speed.

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

I've seen cruelty in my life. I was raised on a constant diet of humiliation. If you think a spanking and the threat of more punishment will bring me to my knees in blind submission to you, you abducted the wrong damn girl.

shame and humiliation are disrespectful, and a child who is treated with disrespect is likely to return the favor.

we all get humiliated at some point or another during our lives. the trick is not to let it make you resentful or defeatist.

You asked that kid to follow me around the mall and throw soda on me?

I want to say something so embarrassing about September that even the leaves start blushing and turning red.

We don't care about humiliating ourselves to ourselves, after all, no one is going to judge us and there are no witnesses.

The whole question hinged on Arthur's statement to his brother. Suppress that statement, and the claim vanished, and with it the scandal, the humiliation, the life-long burden of the woman and child dragging the name of Peyton through heaven knew what depths.

On the island of tears, we were subjected to every kind of humiliation

Cuando miro su rostro me sonríe como alguien que sabe de mí. Yo me siento rígida, lo miro humillada, yo me siento perro, me siento pulga. Mis labios van aullando roncamente mi dolor. Me retuerzo.

Humiliation, sexual harassment, fear and starvation was the order of the day until around 10 P. M. Interrogators made sure that I had no clue about the time, but nobody is perfect; their watches always revealed it.

I'm a big girl, but I have a delicate constitution emotionally. If I've been humiliated in some audition, I just cry all the way home and think, 'Oh my God, I suck.'

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

I'm not a big fan of guitar face: you know, when someone's playing guitar, and they make this really embarrassing face, like they smush their lips together and... they look you in the eye, and it's really humiliating.