Humiliation Quotes

If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.

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.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

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.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

Humility is a safeguard against humiliation.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love. Love.

Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

Art is born of humiliation.

All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.

Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

To write is a humiliation.

The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?

It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.

The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

The song 'Humiliation' is kind of about what if, outside of a dinner party or something, I was blown up by a drone missile, out by the pool. What an embarrassing way to go.

I don't think comedy comes from hotbeds of doing shtick. I think it usually comes from some kind of childhood humiliation or darkness.

You shouldn't bear humiliations.

If you do not prepare yourself physically to succeed, you must prepare yourself mentally for the humiliation of failure.

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect due to them.

The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.