Control Quote by Courtney Kirchoff

“There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was…

— Jack Vance

“He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at his foot,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It’s probably possible to gain humility by means other than repeated humiliation, but repeated humiliation works very well.”

— Mark Vonnegut

“during that time he made me feel what severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable man can inflict on one who…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“First, humiliation, then humility, he would have said. And then comes humanity as a matter of course.”

— Philip José Farmer

“He wasn't a bad person. He didn't want to fight. The trouble was that he'd tried to be part of the larger questions, tried…

— Kiran Desai

“In his anxiety to be just to others he was often prepared to be unjust to himself. He was always ready to sacrifice his…

— Aldous Huxley

“Through the years of his struggle, he had learned that an apparently causeless antagonism was not hard to deal with, but an apparently causeless…

— Ayn Rand

“He'd survived by following two very important rules: don't feel anything and don't expect anything from anyone.”

— G.P. Ching

“He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.”

— Julie Anne Long

“He placed himself under broken and unjust human rule in order to liberate us from self-rule and transform us into people who celebrate and…

— Paul David Tripp