Ignominy Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Molly works because, while Watson is ‘the audience’, Molly is every woman of a certain age sitting at home on the settee fantasizing about running…
— Louise Brealey
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.
— Victor Hugo
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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
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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
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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
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Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see…
— Fernando Pessoa
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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: