Humiliated Quotes

• But stamped on her face was also regret that she had been wrong in her assessment. In those weeks she felt humiliated at having always ascribed a power to things that in the current hierarchies were insignificant: the alphabet, writing, books. Only then—I think today—did she, who seemed so disillusioned, so adult, come to the end of her childhood.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Books
  • Regret
  • Assessment

• Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Lies
  • Compassion
  • Top

• Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Hurt
  • Feel
  • Disrespected

• In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!

  

  Erica Jong
  • Lovers
  • Oneself
  • Infidelity

• Iran humiliated the United States with the capture of our 10 sailors. Horrible pictures & images. We are weak. I will NOT forget!

  

  Donald Trump
  • Forget
  • Weak
  • Horrible

• I don't ever want to humiliate a human being, and I don't want the fear of being humiliated to participate in my thoughts.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Humiliated
  • Humiliate

• They had all known one another a long time, they knew they were complicit victims, and they had no doubt about who the whistleblower was: she, the only one who behaved from the start as if the need to work didn't go hand in hand with the need to be humiliated.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Victims
  • No Doubt
  • Humiliated

• I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Moments
  • Glad
  • Humiliated

• Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).

  

  Serge Schmemann
  • Evil
  • Lists
  • Insulted

• It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly progress thwarted and obstructed by defendants brought before them charged with crimes.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Country
  • Progress
  • Crime

• I have no ego, I'll make fun of myself, and I'll make fun of being humiliated. I get it.

  

  Selma Blair
  • Fun
  • Ego
  • Humiliated

• We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

  

  George Eliot
  • Discovery
  • Private
  • Humiliated

• Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Scene
  • Mouths
  • Humiliated

• Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Blood
  • Wound
  • Humiliated

• It is precisely those members of Congress who have had the most to do with creating the risks that led to the current economic crisis who are making the most noise against others, and summoning people before their committee to be browbeaten and humiliated on nationwide television.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Risk
  • Economic
  • Creating

• A tangle of resentments, the sense of revenge, the need to test the humiliated power of my body were burning up any residue of good sense.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Revenge
  • Humiliated
  • Resentments

• I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

  

  Tom Conti
  • Natural
  • Resistance
  • Humiliated

• I grew to understand or really grasp a sense of what the power of being humble is - that becomes a practice. Otherwise you'll be crushed by your fear of being humiliated. It'll control you the rest of your life. I really understood that. I haven't mastered it, I haven't come close to it.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Grew
  • Crushed
  • Humiliated