“Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“When walking into a room, worry not. Everyone else is afraid. People are scared of people who are scared of people.” — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
Ireland is not in a good place at the moment. We have our own humiliation of losing our economic sovereignty, and we're… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be who I am, I found myself.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, Osama bin Laden puts his finger on the other longstanding injustices in the Arab world: the conying so. And, tinued occupation… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Many Palestinians have been living for decades in camps, disconnected from the environment in which they grew up, wallowing in poverty, in… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right. I don't think I'm unlike a lot of… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, they think it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Dehumanizing and holding people accountable are mutually exclusive. Humiliation and dehumanizing are not accountability or social justice tools, they’re emotional off-loading at… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“I almost panic then. The pleasure-power feeling flees, replaced by humiliation. It's obvious my husband doesn't recognize his own wife. Yet even… — Rae Carson Copy Share Image
“I’ll never forget one of the first families I visited. The father was a railroad man who had lost his job. I… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“For a moment she believed he had left, but as she shifted away from the wall she sensed him there beside the… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many humiliations of the mind and body, and expect… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“This indignation builds up an accumulation of anger over the many ways I am being reminded by the system then and now… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Banks were already seen as greedy and arrogant. They have now reached the depths of humiliation in the wake of the LIBOR… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
As the Ebola virus continued to consume my patients, I witnessed the horror this disease visits upon its victims, the intense pain… — Kent Brantly Copy Share Image
Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and… — Anna Maxted Copy Share Image
I've struggled so much in my life and I've seen so much of rejection, insult and humiliation, that it can turn into… — Anu Malik Copy Share Image
We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I've had every kind of humiliation, from playing in Gala Bingo halls to doing a PA in a Glaswegian nightclub and having… — Sean Maguire Copy Share Image
“Azevedo Bandeira is an expert in the art of progressive intimidation, in the satanic maneuver of gradually humiliating his interlocutor by combining… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“And came to her a realization that the largest humiliation for the person was a lie. And the viler the one to… — Osyp Nazaruk Copy Share Image
I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am who I am despite what America has put before me. I am who I am despite the obstacles that we… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
