Quotes tagged ‘Humiliation’

“A relationship coming to an end when I wanted it to continue is quite bad, but discovering that other people knew it would be ending long before I did is intolerable.”

— Brandy Jensen, jezebel.com

“For Muslims, the season of hajj is the season of pride and glory in the eyes of God’s servants, the season of enlightening hearts, the season of humility before the Creator and of solemn prayer. Hajj is a heavenly, earthly, divine and communal obligation....During this unparalleled obligation, tempo…”

— Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, english.khamenei.ir

“Arthur Fleck: [Arthur is watching Murray Franklin’s show on TV] Murray Franklin: And finally, in a world where everyone thinks they can do my job, check out this guy. [we see Arthur onstage] Arthur Fleck: When I was a little boy and told people I was going to be a comedian, everyone laughed at me. W…”

— Todd Phillips, Scott Silver, Arthur Fleck / Joker, Joaquin Phoenix, imdb.com

“[to Arthur, who’s playing peekaboo with a young boy on the bus] Boy’s Mother: Will you stop bothering my kid? Arthur Fleck: Sorry.”

— Todd Phillips, Scott Silver, Arthur Fleck / Joker, Joaquin Phoenix, imdb.com

“I would play it this way and that way. I could do it for an hour, swear to God. Until someone told me to stop and shut up. I did have one really humiliating experience. This guy came up and just put his hands on the strings and said, 'Shhhhh.' And then walked away with his pretty Dutch girlfriends.…”

— Dave Matthews, amazon.com

“Over the past few years I’ve done things I would never have had the gumption to do when I was younger, like take a Beyoncé dance class, or use the word “gumption” in an article that other, much-cooler individuals will read. But there’s true beauty in realizing no one is watching to see if you’ll fai…”

— Meghan Nesmith, manrepeller.com

“Humiliation—it's not always something we can avoid.”

— Marco Pennette, Mary Alice Young, Brenda Strong, imdb.com

“These are good people! They've supported me through a lot of tough times. Alright, I moved here less than a year ago, completely started over and they've supported me - even the most humiliating moments... I pooped in a shoe on You Tube! Okay? That's what happened.”

— Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna, Rebecca Bunch, Rachel Bloom, imdb.com

“I want to be my own law, I have a right to myself, my hatred and my desires, my life and my death. The mind and flesh of man are set on fire by pride; for it is precisely in his wickedness that man wants to be as God. Confession in the presence of a brother is the profoundest kind of humiliation. It…”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“These men without possessions or power, these strangers on Earth, these sinners, these followers of Jesus, have in their life with him renounced their own dignity, for they are merciful. As if their own needs and their own distress were not enough, they take upon themselves the distress and humiliat…”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“Mosquito…had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. ‘How much longer do you think you will live?’ she asked. ‘You are already a skeleton.’ Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“I couldn’t justify Chappaquiddick. I mean it was a humiliation, a horrible embarrassment, and as I told somebody—it’s in these papers here—I said he took us with him over that bridge because he was sort of our star. I think if that hadn’t happened, he might have been in the White House himself.”

— Walter Mondale, emkinstitute.org

“Why would I want that? The pain, their loss... it's all I have left of them. You think the grief will make you smaller inside, like your heart will collapse in on itself, but it doesn't. I feel spaces opening up inside of me, like a building with rooms I've never explored.”

— Ed Brubaker, Jonathan Nolan, Dolores Abernathy, Evan Rachel Wood, imdb.com

“Well, the girls at the salon told me that there was this group that if you disobeyed their leader, he'd make you lick the floor with your tongue.”

— Annie Weisman, Chloe Jones, Leven Rambin, imdb.com

“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while...I want you to quote this, the media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States... The elite…”

— Steve Bannon, nyti.ms

“Make myself comfortable. What does that mean? Does she want me to take my clothes off? Is she taking her clothes off? What if I take my clothes off and she still has hers on? Then I really look like an idiot. She could get offended and leave. So maybe I should leave them on, but what then if she tak…”

— Larry Charles, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“Because I could get uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why!...Do you think I enjoy living like this?...the shame, the humiliation...You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning.”

— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“I must have been out of my mind. Look at you. Why don't you do something with your life? Sit around here all day, you contribute nothing to society. You're just taking up space. How could I be with someone like you? Couldn't respect myself.”

— Larry David, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com

“You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being without someone you love or the embarrassment of being rejected.”

— Stephen Fry, amazon.com

“Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy.”

— Demi Lovato, amazon.com