Top 256 Humiliating Quotes & Sayings

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

I don't find it humiliating when they call me a psychopath or witch.

We now have to see our country surrender to the enemy without demonstrating our power up to 120 percent. We are now on a course for a humiliating peace - or, rather, a humiliating surrender.

What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

My secrets are petty but humiliating.

There's so much dishonesty with motherhood in general... The truth is it's just a lot of embarrassing, humiliating moments.

... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.

There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities.

Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit...

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

There is something about having babies in your 40s that is unique in both a humiliating and amazing way.

For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.

It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.

Singing in a restaurant is very demeaning and humiliating but you learn from it, because people aren't there for a show, they're there to eat.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating... yet so joyous.

It's humiliating to have to explain your value.

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

It's not easy to reach the summit of your career by the age of 24 - and for the years after to be a humiliating scrabble downhill.

It's so damned humiliating.

I mean, I'm always happy if I have, like, humiliating asshole things that I did. I think: Oh good, that's a good story. Because if you write about humiliating asshole things other people do it doesn't work as well. I mean, you can, but you can get away with it better if you talk about what an asshole you are. It's much easier.

My behavior is humiliating.

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.

Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time.

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.

Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

The humiliating idea that we just slide from the top E.U. table to third country is unthinkable.

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation.

Once you start crossing over and displaying feminine ways, you're a target. It's sad, it's humiliating, and it's confusing.

If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there [Hollywood] weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating.

I know for me, going back the person I've bad-mouthed or lied to is absolutely humiliating! But isn't it interesting that "humiliating" has the same root word as "humility"? Part of humility is taking responsibility for my sin and asking forgiveness even when it doesn't feel good. God wants to heal and restore your relationships, but it's not easy.

I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.

It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!

There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.

It's humiliating, being told you're not responsible enough to make your own choices in life.

I was a bedwetter until I was about 15, and it was humiliating.

Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

Being in a heterosexual relationship for a woman is always implicitly a little bit humiliating.

I'm not really big on humiliating assistant coaches in front of everybody.

It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.

Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.

Commercial auditions can be pretty humiliating.

When it came down to doing the nude scene, I couldn't hide how humiliating it was for me; I burst into tears.

If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.

To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.