Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
During episodes of unemployment I find it rewarding to sleep as much as possible-anything from twelve to fourteen hours a day is… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Nor is any evidence to be found, either in History or Human Nature, that nations are to be bribed out of a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
And here I thought they were called Peeping Toms." I didn't need to see him to know he wore a smile. "Stop… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
In order to attract us, the Lord grants us many graces that we believe can easily obtain Heaven for us. We do… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
“Studies show that the fear of public humiliation is a potent force. During the 1988-89 basketball season, for example, two NCAA basketball… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“The idea that humiliation is some capital crime of the spirit is a fiction. The sentences we hand down for losing control… — John Hockenberry Copy Share Image
What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation,… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
The recession of the late 1980s was a very visible humiliation. Cities across Britain had become the victims of botched battlefield surgery… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
“But once you allow yourself to think that there are some people, because of their race, their color, or religion, who are… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
“Cunt-lapping, mother-fucking, and cock-sucking are words to provoke a sense of outrage. Being forced to play the role of a woman in… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“It rubs against me, dipping between my hot lips and makes me whimper with yearning. You remove it dramatically and raise it… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
Sitcom characters, my writing partner Sam Bain and I sometimes tell each other, are not normally self-conscious. Or not quite. The best… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I hated them horribly, though perhaps I was worse than any of them. They repaid me in the same way, and did… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Think about the stories you have inside that scare you. That's what you should be writing. I and others call that writing… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Another reason for the increased self-centeredness of an adolescent is her susceptibility to humiliation. This brazen, defiant creature is also something tender,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room—a cry of boundless,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I started lip-synching with "Losing My Religion." There were a few horrendous mistakes we made, but I own those mistakes. I'm embarrassed… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Trump is the hyperventilating yellow canary in the coal mine reminding us all that social death is a looming threat. He is… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
How to seperate the humiliation from the loss, that's the catch. You can never be sure if what tortures you is the… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“People often talk about the pain and degradation of being bullied. No one really talks about the cost. Not that money is… — Lish McBride Copy Share Image
Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As she watched all of this, Liesel was certain that these were the poorest souls alive. That's what she wrote about them… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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