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It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying! — Wendelin Van Draanen
Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault, and murder into the bargain. In return for which… — Diana Gabaldon
The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it… — Albert Camus
The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite… — Ayi Kwei Armah
He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity. — Anais Nin
It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I… — Mark Twain
O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts — Salman Rushdie
Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying… — Jim Butcher
If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you… — John Irving
The wood nymph instructors left me in the dust. They told me not to worry about it. They'd had centuries of practice running away from… — Rick Riordan
If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to… — Maya Angelou
You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a… — A. S. Byatt
New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them? — H.G. Wells
‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to… — Ayn Rand
It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on. — John Wyndham
I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making you love them,… — Lionel Shriver
I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort… — Osamu Dazai
But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic. — James Branch Cabell
For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency. — Stephenie Meyer
A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he… — C. V. Wedgwood
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. — Cesar Chavez

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