Humiliation Quotes
287 quotes by 258 authors
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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Art is born of humiliation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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One man's transparency is another's humiliation.
— Gerry Adams
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The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
— Gerry Adams
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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
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Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.
— James Buchan
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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
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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.
— Corazon Aquino
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The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.
— Kathy Acker
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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
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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
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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
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In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.
— Alistair Cooke
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Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.
— Alan Cohen
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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
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Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.
— Janet Morris
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Humiliation Quotes
258 authors contributed a total of 287 Humiliation Quotes, led by these top contributors: