Humiliating Quote by Anais Nin Download Open image “He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.” — Anais Nin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humiliating Pity Ridiculous
What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill! — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The feeling he had nourished and given prominence to was one of thankfulness for his escape: he was like a traveller so grateful for… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Stop constantly pity other people for how unfortunate and miserable they are, it's unpleasent to hear that repeadetly. A man who do not pity… — Fergus MacDermott Copy Share Image
“the pity which the spectators then exhibit is in so far a consolation for the weak and suffering in that the latter recognize therein… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“…For love it is never the same. What goes on inside is never the same just like this music which changes every instant. For… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a sword between… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same adults think nothing of… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
My father would never have come to visit, he detested Eva's [Braun] choice in a man and the fact [Adolf] Hitler had set her… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think a huge amount of it is because of the Internet. Every single thing in the world is accessible with a few clicks.… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought of my… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain… — April Winchell Copy Share Image
How does it feel to be the 's third choice? Humiliating? You could have thrown a dart. That's how close they were. We had… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image