Ignominy Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of Days has… — Saint John Chrysostom
When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His… — Paul of the Cross
What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of… — Logan Pearsall Smith
Molly works because, while Watson is â€˜the audienceâ€™, Molly is every woman of a certain age sitting at home on the settee fantasizing about running… — Louise Brealey
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats
Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and… — Gustave Flaubert
There is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly… — B. C. Forbes
The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane… — Barbara Ehrenreich
We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail… — Louis Kronenberger
Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the ignominy… — Iain Pears
One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes… — Gustave Flaubert
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are… — Milan Kundera
Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect. — Victor Hugo
At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and… — Robert Walser
You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I don't… — N.K. Jemisin
At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis,… — Anais Nin
Man shouldnâ€™t be able to see his own face â€“ thereâ€™s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see… — Fernando Pessoa
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth. — John Milton

Who Wrote These Ignominy Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 18 Ignominy Quotes as follows: