#humiliation

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it. ↗

— E. W. Howe

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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#certain #go #healthy #humiliation #morbidity

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification. ↗

— John Donne

#humiliation #sanctification

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#disease #humiliations #humility #series #treatment

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#hunger #more #than

I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters. ↗

— Ben Stiller

#behalf #characters #endure #humiliation #i

With publicity comes humiliation. ↗

— Tama Janowitz

#humiliation #publicity

With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#always #before #cheerfulness #cultivate #deepest

Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#gym #humiliation #humor #p-e #physical-education

As she uttered the words of the prayer, she glanced up at him as if he were God Himself. He watched her with growing pleasure. In front of him was kneeling the directress, being humiliated by a subordinate; in front of him a naked revolutionary was being humiliated by prayer; in front of him a praying lady was being humiliated by her nakedness. This threefold image of degradation intoxicated him and something unexpected suddenly happened: his body revoked its passive resistance. Edward was excited! As the directress said, 'And lead us not into temptation,' he quickly threw off all his clothes. When she said, 'Amen,' he violently lifted her off the floor and dragged her onto the couch. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#degradation #humiliation #lust #sex #love