Mortifying Quotes

#1. Amazing, then, how with that one remark, he made a mortifying situation thirteen times worse.

Tessa Dare

#2. I put the photo in an album called Mortifying Emotional Moments, and I title it Soggy Napkin Note. The last selfie I posted in there was of me on the day I graduated college. My perfectly made up face is happy ... relieved. I called that one: Sallie Mae Can Suck It.

Tarryn Fisher

#3. Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?

Tony Kushner

#4. What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan Pearsall Smith

#5. It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Samuel Johnson

#6. Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying.

Natasha Lyonne

#7. To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#8. If the question is: what's more mortifying than professing your love to a boy and having him turn and walk away from you? The answer is: professing your love to a boy, while standing in front of your friends, parents and a hundred strangers, and having him turn and walk away from you.

Autumn Doughton

#9. Do you have any idea how mortifying it is to have your own mother standing up in front of everybody, drawing pictures of penises?

Diana Gabaldon

#10. It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.
(Jane Austen)

Jane Austen

#11. I can smell arousal, Talin. You get hot every time you see me half-naked."
The erotic need that flared through her body was mortifying. Perhaps that explained the stupidity of her next words. "Maybe I get that way for every half-naked man.

Nalini Singh

#12. Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!

Gilles Deleuze

#13. If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

Moon Unit Zappa

#14. It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one's self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#15. Some, too, will not leave for His sake a place which is to their taste, expecting to receive all the sweetness of God fully in their heart without moving a step, without mortifying themselves by the abandonment of a single pleasure or useless delight.

San Juan De La Cruz

#16. Behold not Death's Heads til thou doest not see them, nor look upon mortifying objects til thou overlook'st them.

John Connolly

#17. I famously stole tons of VHS tapes from a video store I worked in. It was detailed in my special, Laboring Under Delusions. I worked at Tower Video and stole a bunch of videotapes from them, and then got caught and had to return the videotapes. It was a mortifying experience.

Paul F. Tompkins

#18. Offensive, no. Mortifying, yes.

Laurie Alice Eakes

#19. is only one thing more mortifying than having an exclamation mark removed by an editor: an exclamation mark added in.

Lynne Truss

#20. I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity; it's too mortifying.

Johnny Depp

#21. I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.

J.I. Packer

#22. Although experience has taught me to trust my feelings, I did not go inside to stand guard near her. She had asked me to wait on the bench. I had no intention of crossing her. Like most men, I find it mortifying to be ass-kicked by a woman who doesn't even weigh 110 pounds after Thanksgiving dinner.

Dean Koontz

#23. Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile soul quickly becomes dry and arid and produces nothing but thorns and thistles if it is not cultivated.

John Climacus

#24. I don't know. There's just something kind of mortifying to me about the intensity of those feelings. I remember them so clearly.

Becky Albertalli

#25. I get to the bottom of why I'm so upset. When I do, it's almost too Mortifying to admit. All this months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly.

Suzanne Collins

#26. Never mind. Little girls shouldn't ask questions,' returned Jo sharply.
Now if there is anything mortifying to our feelings when we are young, it is to be told that; and to be bidden to 'run away, dear' is still more trying to us.

Louisa May Alcott

#27. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity, it's too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it's getting worse. I can't tell whether my work is good or not.

Johnny Depp

#28. Think your mother will let me drive you to school tomorrow? Now that we're all friends and united by a belief in the careful use of contraception?"
My cheeks burn, the memory of my mother's mortifying behavior distracting me for a moment. "Yes," I mumble. "I think so.

Stacey Jay

#29. I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

William Congreve

#30. By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

Florence Nightingale

#31. The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

Britt Ekland

#32. Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid.

Jean-Pierre De Caussade

#33. There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

Georgette Heyer

#34. It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

Charles Caleb Colton

#35. The general idiocy of mankind is such that they can be swayed by words, and however mortifying, for the present you have to accept the fact as you accept it in the cinema that a film to be a success must have a happy ending.

W. Somerset Maugham

#36. It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence; yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.

Thomas Jefferson

#37. It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying to belong to a church that is five minutes behind the times, huffing and puffing to catch up.

Joseph Sobran

#38. If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.

Anonymous

#39. Shall we go away whenever life looks like turning in the slightest uncanny, or not quite normal, or even rather painful and mortifying? No, surely not. Rather stay and look matters in the face, brave them out; perhaps precisely in so doing lies a lesson for us to learn.

Thomas Mann

#40. They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.

Padgett Powell

#41. The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

Charles Lamb

#42. Why must this be so mortifying? Oh, that's right. Because its my life.

Tessa Dare

#43. It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

Edith Wharton

#44. It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Wendelin Van Draanen

#46. Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.

Lord Chesterfield

#47. I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

Billy Bob Thornton

#48. Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures ...

John Owen

#49. Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.

Alphonsus Liguori

#50. If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of the world, nothing of growth in grace, of cordial, habitual, persevering obedience to the Divine commands, how can it be that you have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ?

Gardiner Spring