Humiliating Quotes

#1. Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.

Stephen Sondheim

#3. There had been in his past, as in every man's, actions, recognized by him as bad, for which his conscience ought to have tormented him; but the memory of these evil actions was far from causing him so much suffering as those trivial but humiliating reminiscences.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. We shall never arrive at true meekness by any other way than by humiliating ourselves and by honoring others from the depth of our hearts.

John Calvin

#5. I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

Maria Mitchell

#6. Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United States of America is 232 years old and we're having to go to mom for money.

Argus Hamilton

#7. I could feel my body temperature - I knew I was bright red. It was so humiliating, I was so upset, and it was nothing I had planned to do. It was just one of those beautiful moments, the alchemy of acting that is so mysterious, where you sort of go, "How did that come out of me?"

Sarah Paulson

#8. My behavior is humiliating.

Danny Bonaduce

#9. I was a bedwetter until I was about 15, and it was humiliating.

Sarah Silverman

#10. We are angered even by the full acceptance of our humiliating confessions - how much more by hearing in hard distinct syllables from the lips of a near observer, those confused murmurs which we try to call morbid, and strive against as if they were the oncoming of numbness!

George Eliot

#11. We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

Umberto Eco

#12. There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities.

Jerry Hall

#13. Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.

Jennifer Aniston

#14. The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

Oscar Wilde

#15. Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

Ravi Zacharias

#16. It is impossible to go on living when life assumes such grotesque and humiliating forms.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#17. That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.'

David O. Russell

#18. My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it. I feel I'm older than they are, much older. I feel ancient.

Margaret Atwood

#19. We don't care about humiliating ourselves to ourselves, after all, no one is going to judge us and there are no witnesses.

Javier Marias

#20. It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics ... so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted.

Dag Hammarskjold

#21. But to a woman, failure is another matter. For her it means failure to live, failure to establish her own life on the face of the earth. And this is humiliating, the ultimate humiliation.

D.H. Lawrence

#22. It was from Willi I learned how many women like to be bullied. It was humiliating and I used to fight against accepting it as true. But I've seen it over and over again. If

Doris Lessing

#23. Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Eduardo Galeano

#24. Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were caught stark naked with a poor figure.

Ilka Chase

#25. It makes you crazy. Waiting for someone to love you, to come to you and only you, to choose you like you've already chosen, is the most degrading, debasing, demoralising ... and yet, sweet, sweet pain there is. It's as humbling aas it is humiliating. But yes, there is a sweet side.

Pamela Ribon

#26. Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

Johan Huizinga

#27. Few remember that the battle of Rorke's Drift was fought on the same day that the British Army suffered its most humiliating defeat at nearby Isandlwana.

Saul David

#28. It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.

Angela Davis

#29. Everybody is trying to be perfect. And the moment somebody starts trying to be perfect, he starts expecting everybody else to be perfect. He starts condemning people, he starts humiliating people.

Rajneesh

#30. She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.

Rebecca West

#31. What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

Jeanette Winterson

#32. Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones.

L.M. Montgomery

#33. I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.

William Powell

#34. I hate it when she does that. There's nothing more humiliating than being smacked by your crazy mother in front of your friends.

Susan Ee

#35. It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.

Nathaniel Branden

#36. I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class

Pat Conroy

#37. I cant think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time against Kansas City. I had a 2-2 count on the hitter - and Amos Otis broke from third. The pitch was a ball and slid in safe. I felt like a nickel.

Nolan Ryan

#38. Aside from being terrifying, it was totally humiliating. Rose Tyler, Barbie doll.

Jacqueline Rayner

#39. It seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for His entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism.

Philip Yancey

#40. When I was seven, these kids in the alley behind our house in Omaha called me Freckleface Strawberry. I hated my freckles, and I hated that name. I thought it was humiliating in the way that only a seven-year-old could hate it.

Julianne Moore

#41. Depends on one's perspective whether my current state of affairs is considered hilarious. A stranger peering into my life would probably find it quite comical. I think it's tragically humiliating, to say the very least.

Sarah Noffke

#42. The trouble is that people hate coaches, and for good reason. Coach travel is a dismal and humiliating experience. When I take the bus, as I sometimes must, from Oxford to Cambridge, I arrive feeling almost suicidal.

George Monbiot

#43. Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.

Claire Danes

#44. Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating ... yet so joyous.

Ken Green

#45. O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

Salman Rushdie

#46. She knew better than to lose her head over a man. That was what was so humiliating: she knew better. Three broken engagements had taught her that a woman needed to keep her wits about her when dealing with the male species, or she could get seriously hurt.

Linda Howard

#47. What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?

Walter Kirn

#48. When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.

Lena Dunham

#49. It's humiliating to have to explain your value.

Christine Vachon

#50. You can manage cancer. You don't have to be degraded by humiliating treatments and protocols. And in some cases, you can be cured of cancer.

Suzanne Somers

#51. Traditional religious beliefs have been eroded, not so much by humiliating disproofs of their mythologies as by the growing awareness that beliefs are really enabling mechanisms for survival. Religions,

Edward O. Wilson

#52. We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#53. It's naturally kind of humiliating and strange to have a microphone; when you're young you just make movies, you don't worry about all the peripheral stuff that comes with it.

Don Hertzfeldt

#54. There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.

Arundhati Roy

#55. While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

Gaston Leroux

#56. I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It's always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you're in jockey shorts. Yeah.

Michael Chiklis

#57. You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.

A.S. Byatt

#58. The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite things finally understood, the humiliating feeling of the watcher's nothingness.

Ayi Kwei Armah

#59. What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

Wendi McLendon-Covey

#60. I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion.

Mike Tyson

#61. What you see as a crisis, God sees as an opportunity for growth. What you see as humiliating, He sees as an occasion for the development of humble leadership. It is all in how you see it. What is your perspective?

Myles Munroe

#62. What happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money.

Jim Butcher

#63. Of all my failures to offset the mortification of wanting, expecting, or caring too much, the most humiliating was having no real answer for the love of a good man. It humbled me.

Michelle Orange

#64. Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere.

Albert Bigelow Paine

#65. A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.

Eugene V. Debs

#66. How often have the frustrations of second-class citizenship and humiliating status led us into blind outrage against each other and the real cause and course of our dilemma been ignored?

Martin Luther King Jr.

#67. At every moment I convinced myself that I was gathering material for the novel of my life - all experienced from the philosophical distance of the author. Even these humiliating occasions when I was robbed could be used as material. Life was a field trip.

Edmund White

#68. Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?

Patrick Henry

#69. Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.

Larry David

#70. It's a certain kind of hell, confessing your most humiliating sexual secrets to a room full of hairy middle-aged men.

Jessica Knoll

#71. I wondered what would be the most humiliating way possible to be turned into a vampire - a story that a vampire would be embarrassed to share with their vampire buddies over a nice glass of Type O.

Molly Harper

#72. All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

Ilka Chase

#73. Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#74. In 1984 the lust for power is satisfied by inflicting pain; in Brave New World, by inflicting a hardly less humiliating pleasure.

Aldous Huxley

#75. Dogma in science really is humiliating when it is recognized as dogma.

Sam Harris

#76. The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

Oriana Fallaci

#77. No, the single most humiliating part of the whole fucking humiliating exercise in abject humiliation was that somewhere between then and now, Grace had actually thought Vaughn was a nice guy,

Sarra Manning

#78. Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.

Hugo Ball

#79. It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Charles E. McKenzie

#80. We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

Dalai Lama

#81. It's so damned humiliating.

Mark Twain

#82. The bus was crowded, standing room only, and he clung apelike from a bar that hung down from the ceiling. It was humiliating to be packed in with all these people; it reminded him of a cattle car or worse, a sardine can, or worse...but what could be worse than this?

Joseph G. Peterson

#83. It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time,

Mark Hoppus

#84. Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.

April Winchell

#85. A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who will help another kid out of a humiliating situation. We just aren't built that way.

David Lubar

#86. I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.

Leonard Cohen

#87. Poor as the poor I cling,
like them, to humiliating hopes;
like them, each day I nearly kill myself
just to live.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

#88. I prefer the Chinese restaurants that have the silverware on the table when you arrive, because there's nothing more humiliating than starting with chopsticks and having to turn to the waiter and being like, Uh, yeah, hi, uh, I'm too white. Do you have a shovel back there?

Jim Gaffigan

#89. New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

H.G.Wells

#90. I was tired of this silly joking about my 'speaking countenance'. I could keep a secret as well as anyone. Poirot had always persisted in the humiliating belief that I am a transparent character and that anyone can read what is passing in my mind.

Agatha Christie

#91. Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

Alain De Botton

#92. It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!

Wendelin Van Draanen

#93. Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.

Gary Weiss

#94. It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.

Jessica Lange

#95. I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making you love them, since loving someone is so incredibly humiliating.

Lionel Shriver

#96. The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#97. Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

Fanny Fern

#98. What rioters, out of control, are really protesting about is life itself. Most people do not like it, it's humiliating for almost everyone.

Kurt Vonnegut

#99. Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.

Thomas Merton

#100. There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

Max Lerner