Humiliating Quotes

• I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have no unrestrained instincts left. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • World
  • Beginning
  • Recollection

• The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Dream
  • Man
  • Reality

• We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Death
  • Limit
  • Humiliating

• The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Woman
  • Most
  • Humiliating

• As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness. I covered it with being funny and tough, but it's hard to be tough when you're making your cot in your bunk over soaking wet sheets and acting like nobody can smell anything.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Kids
  • Acting
  • Summer

• The imposition of P.C. has no logical end because feeling better about one’s self by confessing other people’s sins, humiliating and hurting them, is an addictive pleasure the appetite for which grows with each satisfaction. The more fault I find in thee, the holier (or, at least, the trendier) I am than thou. The worse you are, the better I am and the more power I should have over you.

  

  Angelo Codevilla
  • Fault
  • Hurting
  • Confessing

• Falling on your face when you’re young and good looking is one thing, but when you’re an old man it can be quite humiliating.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Falling
  • Old Man
  • Humiliating

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

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Band
  • Feels
  • Apologizing

• Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Experience
  • Personality
  • Actor

• I think the fear of humiliating yourself on stage always motivates me to give at least 90 percent. I've definitely been guilty of leaning on the mic stand, but you can only do that so long before you're like, "Jesus, I'm bombing." The fact that people pay to come see me, that's really just out the window.

  

  Bill Burr
  • People
  • Long
  • Giving

• A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Poverty
  • Painful
  • Cheerfully

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

  

  Max Lerner
  • Crime
  • Cynical
  • Sucker

• Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.

  

  John D. Voelker
  • Man
  • Humiliating
  • Fly-Fishing

• 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
  • Risk
  • Occasion
  • Humiliating

• My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Feelings
  • Murder
  • Endure

• Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Way
  • Actors
  • Protect

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

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Humiliating

• 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
  • Kids
  • Helping
  • Built

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

  

  Charles E. McKenzie
  • Advice
  • Ignore
  • Humiliating

• It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Humiliating

• You know there's always things in life that you have to do despite the fact that you know for certain the outcome is going to be messy, painful, humiliating, or all three.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Outcome
  • Despite
  • Humiliating

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Spandex

• If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there Hollywood weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • People
  • Hollywood
  • Humiliating

• She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous lines, by boys... It had all been pure vanity, all just a wish, in these waning days of hers, still to feel power, still to have the assurance of her beauty and its effects.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Women
  • Vanity
  • Assurance

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