Shame Quote by Ned Vizzini

“I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed or humiliated, disrespected and…

— James Gilligan

“Some people enjoy humiliation. Maybe I used to be one of those people, but I don’t feel humiliation anymore. The body sloughs off cells…

— Samantha Hunt

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we…

— David Whyte

“Life was that — humiliation, renunciation.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in…

— Ashim Shanker

“Time: life’s inexorable weapon of humiliation.”

— Shawn Davis

“My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.”

— Charlotte Brontë

Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.

— Francine Pascal

“The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone”

— Milan Kundera

“Yes. I feel humiliated, humiliated by having confessed everything to you, disregarding the dignity that demands one suffers in silence. By the fact that…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for…

— Kate Reardon