#humiliation

We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#attack #did #fight #humiliation #rejection

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

Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#hopes #humiliation #life #nature #perspective

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#humiliation #lift #people #pride #themselves

Art is born of humiliation. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#born #humiliation

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

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#places #shy #sunny #these #where