Damnation Quote by Brandon Sanderson

...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his…

— Philip Pullman

“His malice was aimed at himself; with shame and contempt he recollected his "cowardice.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The next Post brought a reply from the starets, who wrote to him that the cause of all his trouble lay in his pride.…

— Leo Tolstoy

“his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on fluttering in…

— George Eliot

“His face, like everything she knew about him, was purely contradictory. That cherubic mouth with those penetrating eyes: he was too lovely to be…

— Priscilla Glenn

“To be rendered unconscious; to lie exposed, without shame, at the mercy of others; to be touched, incised, plundered, remade - this is what…

— Margaret Atwood

“He bent his head towards his shoulder and tried to look pitiful and humble, but for all that he was radiant with freshness and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Pride becomes the blanket transgression that conceals the rest of our sins, allowing us to remain blind to them.”

— alisa hope wagner

This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a…

— Ayn Rand

“His useless pride had become so swollen that the expression 'caring nothing for appearances' could never, ever apply to him”

— Shion Miura

“There's a feeling of shame that is more painful than any other in life; it's the shame felt by the victim who is forced…

— Sándor Márai

“Pride is the veil that blinds the eyes of the soul.”

— Leonardo Ramirez