138 Quotes About Humiliation

Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.

No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself?

Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humiliation she was enduring was perfect, like the paring of skin from a hard apple.

ًًمذلة الدَّيّن أقسى من مذلة البطن

That. That right there was exactly how the slippery slope into Humiliation-ville began.

Humiliation is mostly something we try to avoid, but it is something more often, all for the best, in retrospect. There is a lovely root to the word, the Latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returned to the ground of our being. Any fancy ideas we have about ourselves are shriven away by the reality of the moment. We come to earth with a thump. It may be a narrow piece of ground, but at least it is real and at least it is our own.

Do not take an overdose, whether that relates to wisdom, motives, any tricks or other objects and subjects that bring you down to only humiliate you.

As a fact, a liar humiliates and degrades itself with its lies.

I sit on the sidewalk with a sign. Maybe you think its humiliating, but it's only humiliating if I feel humiliated, and I don't. What did Eleanor Roosevelt say? 'No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.