Pride Quote by Julie Anne Long

“He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within…

— Victor Hugo

“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 entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He…

— Willa Cather

“He is prepared, each day, to confront his own self-sabotage.”

— Steven Pressfield

“He was alone in the doorway, digging the street. Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness--everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged…

— Jack Kerouac

“I suppose it's comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare to inflict.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“He craved silences and solitude. He simply could not get lost in another person’s life.”

— Sreesha Divakaran

“Somewhere deep inside, his humanity had been shaken by something so unnatural, so foreign in its essence, his very being withdrew from it...”

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

“Pride was an illusion, an artifice that could be set aside when circumstances warranted.”

— Alec Hutson

“He felt useless and degraded, as if he no longer lived for others but for himself alone.”

— Bernard Werber

“...(he) reminded me by his presence, by his natural and plain manner of being good, that there still existed a just world outside our…

— Primo Levi

“If lies comfort, and truth disturbs - self is being agitated as a result of prideful living.”

— T.F. Hodge