Humiliation Quotes - Page 14

• Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gratitude, Thinking, Debt

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”

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• I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and search for the truth. In our home and in many other homes the eternal questions were more actual than the latest news in the Yiddish newspaper. In spite of all the disenchantments and all my skepticism I believe that the nations can learn much from those Jews, their way of thinking, their way of bringing up children, their finding happiness where others see nothing but misery and humiliation.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Mother, Children, Father

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Airplane, Thinking, Weight

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Dying, Embarrassment

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• Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Long, Age, Pressure

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• Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Sex, Disappointment, Spots

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• it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

  Harriet Martineau

  Suffering, Causes, Illness

  Harriet Martineau (1845). “Life in the Sick-room: Essays”, p.195

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• Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die--die, sweetly die--into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Heart, Thinking, Law

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• 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.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Country, Thinking, Doubt

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.55, BookBaby

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• From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Views, Perception, Becoming

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• The next time you see a Muslim or Sikh at the airport, don't judge us - sympathize with us. Understand our humiliation every time we're pulled to the side for additional screenings simply because of who we are.

  Debbie Almontaser

  Airports, Judging, Who We Are

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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• We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation

  Thomas Merton

  Imagination, Kind, Obscure

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

  Kathy Acker

  Humility, Pride, Practice

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• We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease with no humiliation, a life of security with no fear, a life of richness with no poverty, a life of joy with no pain, a life of perfection with no flaws. Allah is testing us in this world with a life that will end in death, a life of pride that is accompanied by humiliation and degradation, a life that is tainted by fear, where joy and ease are mixed with sorrow and pain.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Pain, Pride, Perfection

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• 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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Proud, Ancestry

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• But all at once I realized that it was not my success God had used to enable me to help those in this prison, or in hundreds of others just like it. My life of success was not what made this morning so glorious -- all my achievements meant nothing in God's economy. "No, the real legacy of my life was my biggest failure -- that I was an ex-convict. My greatest humiliation -- being sent to prison -- was the beginning of God's greatest use of my life; He chose the one thing in which I could not glory for His glory.

  Charles Colson

  Morning, Real, Achievement

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.24, Zondervan

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• Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

  Edmund Burke

  Humility, Humanity

  Edmund Burke, Robert MONTGOMERY (Author of “Satan.”.) (1853). “Edmund Burke: being first principles selected from his writings. With an introductory essay by Robert Montgomery”, p.170

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• You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast.

  Jack Black

  Firsts, Film, Hardcore

  "Angelina Jolie and Jack Black: Fu fighters". Interview with Anthony Breznican, ew.com. May 20, 2011.

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• In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

  Jackie Chan

  Dog, Past, People

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• When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Doe, Terrorism

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• After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me.

  Tracey Gold

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Hate

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• Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

  Saint Patrick

  Wall, Lying, Compassion

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• God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Men, Perfect

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• If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Expression, People, Identity

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• The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

  Alain de Botton

  War, Land, Two

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