“The indignity of your fate is the will of one more powerful.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
“I know what you're afraid of. It's not pain, or solitude. It's indignity you can't stand, Hannibal, you're like a cat that… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
There is nothing like the indignity of not fitting into a roller coaster. — Mick Foley Copy Share Image
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities… — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
“Now all I thought of, as we spoke, was that today I’d be walking with Marzia and each time we’d try to… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“for the modern indignity of travel—the promiscuities and vulgarities, the station and the hotel, the gregarious patience, the struggle for a scrappy… — Henry James Copy Share Image
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do.… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“To me, a world which thinks of itself in terms of puny, squalid, bickering little nations and not as one glorious field… — Michael Arlen Copy Share Image
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
During the long ages of class rule, which are just beginning to cease, only one form of sovereignty has been assigned to… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
I did get upset once, when we were hiking between pitches 15 and 16. Two women and a dog were trying to… — Andy Cairns Copy Share Image
We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. — Maggie Kuhn Copy Share Image
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There are real indignities and real problems when all facets of life are controlled –when to get up, to eat, to shower-and… — Judi Chamberlin Copy Share Image
One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and… — Ai-jen Poo Copy Share Image
I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
