Humiliation Quotes

287 quotes by 258 authors

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Art is born of humiliation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
One man's transparency is another's humiliation. — Gerry Adams
The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever. — Gerry Adams
All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It… — Alain de Botton
Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated. — James Buchan
Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's… — Jane Campion
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride. — Corazon Aquino
The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility. — Kathy Acker
There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are… — David Whyte
When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be who I am, I found myself. When I experienced… — Paulo Coelho
I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and freedom, must be… — Leyla Zana
In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game. — Alistair Cooke
Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego. — Alan Cohen
Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that… — Hans Selye
Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls. — Janet Morris
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that… — Albert Camus
It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted… — Woodrow Wilson
Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and… — Abraham Lincoln

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