Best shame & humiliation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The bible was not written by a woman. Within its leaves there is nothing but humiliation and shame for her.”

Men Long Rights Written Regard Shame Slave Humiliation Charter

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.”

People Littles Saws Four Century Wind Shame Gentle Friendly Humiliation Breeze Ghetto Humiliated Invisibility

Book:Prisoner of Love

Source: Prisoner of Love

“A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.”

Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays

“All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee of shame, failure, dumbness and humiliation if you ever use it in public.”

Ifs Use Shame Golf Guarantees Iron Angle Humiliation Golfers Dumbness

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it... You can insist on a different ending to your story. Have compassion for yourself. We all deserve compassion, and to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.”

Knows World Needs Different Stories Suffering Compassion One Thing Deserve Shame Online Compassionate Humiliation And Off Compassion For Yourself

Author:Monica Lewinsky

“Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.”

Industry Shame Commodity Humiliation

Author:Monica Lewinsky

“The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it.”

May Persons Two Important Wish Emotion Tears Opposites Shame Guilt Distinction Confession Humiliation Shame And Guilt

Author:Paul Ekman

“This country you're sitting in right now was not built on love, hugs, time-outs and trophies you didn't earn. This country was built on shame, humiliation and striving to be better. By the way, if you're in this room right now and you're successful... you didn't get there because someone loved you too much or gave you too many hugs or you got a trophy when you lost. You did it because at one point in your life, somebody turned to you and said you're a loser, and in that second, you decided to bust your ass to make them choke on that sentence... Or, your parents gave you the money.”

Ifs Way Said Country Lost Parent Rooms Successful Too Much Right Now Sitting Built Decided Shame Strive Sentences Ass Loser Hug Humiliation One Love Choke Trophies Lost You

Author:Christopher Titus

“You know, we'll hardly get our feet out of time [and] into eternity that we'll bow our heads in shame and humiliation. We'll gaze on eternity and say, 'My God! Look at all the riches there were in Jesus Christ, and I've come to the Judgment Seat almost a pauper!”

Knows Looks Jesus Christ Feet Judgment Jesus Christ Eternity Shame Riches Seats Bows Humiliation

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.”

Acting Doubt Shame Encounters Worth It Humiliation

Author:David Mamet

“People didn't feel so much shame around it and that they didn't feel so much humiliation around it. And the other thing that people have given me a lot of feedback about - something I'm very excited about - is all the stuff around chemo as an "empathetic warrior."”

People Feels Given Stuff Shame Excited Warrior Humiliation Feedback Empathetic

Author:Eve Ensler

“I wonder if at this point, I mean, given [Donald's Trump] noted inability to deal with shame, humiliation and loss, and what seem like epically deep psychic wounds that he carries around, that he just wants to go and be in a place that he feels like he created.”

Ifs Want Feels Mean Seems Given Loss Deals Wonder Trump Shame Wounds Carrie Psychics Humiliation Inability

Author:Michelle Goldberg

“And it struck me that talking about our financial situation is very much like men not wanting to talk about sexual impotence. It's just not something you do. It's an embarrassment. It's a shame. It's a humiliation.”

Men Situation Shame Financial Humiliation Embarrassment

Author:Neal Gabler

“The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.”

Feels Matter Choices Mistake Bases Shame Humiliation Ignominy

Author:Milan Kundera

“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”

Real Parent Shame Humiliation

Author:Alice Munro

“Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.”

Humans Self Pain Suffering Emotion Regret Shame Pity Dread Humiliation Self Pity Human Emotions

Author:Michael Pollan

“We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.”

Way Littles Lasts Dies Courses Despair Shame Humiliation

Author:Clive Barker

“In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will tell you, there has never been an American army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.”

Has Beens Baby Happenings Army Shame Soldier Iraq Violent Vietnam Killers Humiliation American Army

Author:Seymour Hersh

“Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape, intensifying the slightest feelings of either delight or shame. No other experience makes so obvious the realities of both heaven and hell.”

“You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.”

Used Modern Acceptance Shame Used To Be Humiliation Publicity Discernment Humiliate

Book:The Enemies List

Source: The Enemies List

“Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status.”

Heart Eye Achieve Pride Involved Losing Importance Shame Inferiors Superiority Humiliation Rating Estimation

Author:Laozi

“Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is).”

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