#humiliation

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy. ↗

— John Guare

#comedy #core #humiliation #tragedy

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

Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder. ↗

— Alice Miller

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Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#defeat #due #former #glory #humiliation

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#anger #been #certainly #condition #does

Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#discipline #emotional #humiliation #life #paralyzing

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful. ↗

— Carson McCullers

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No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself? ↗

— Marian Keyes

#humor #anger

Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

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