Top 445 Humiliation Quotes & Sayings

Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.

Humility is a safeguard against humiliation.

With publicity comes humiliation.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

I'm definitely a fan of public humiliation.

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease with no humiliation, a life of security with no fear, a life of richness with no poverty, a life of joy with no pain, a life of perfection with no flaws. Allah is testing us in this world with a life that will end in death, a life of pride that is accompanied by humiliation and degradation, a life that is tainted by fear, where joy and ease are mixed with sorrow and pain.

Humility may bring you humiliation here on earth, but surely not in heaven.

I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.

I will put honesty before the risk of humiliation.

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.

Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

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

When you decide to hit rock bottom, humiliation is part of the deal.

The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

Art is born of humiliation.

I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.

You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast.

God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

I mean we [The Beatles] had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and all that. They were so condescending and stupid. Everybody trying to use us. It was a special humiliation for me because I could never keep my mouth shut and I'd always have to be drunk or pilled to counteract this pressure. It was really hell .

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

The flip side of humiliation is pride.

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

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

I don't think losing things - in my case, the use of my legs - really damages or hurts you. What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation. A lot of the wars going on right now in the Middle East aren't about poverty and exploitation. They're about humiliation. For a long time, the British and French have been humiliating the people of the Middle East, and encouraging people like Israel to do the same. Israel started out as a socialist state, but we always encouraged them to become rather racist and look down on the local inhabitants, which they now do. It's sad that's happened.

From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.

Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.

If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.

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

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.

Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.

Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you are childlike and have a greater sense of kinship, you do not feel humiliated. When you are steeped in love with the Existence, with the Divine, nothing whatsoever can humiliate you.

The problem with golf is I have to deal with a humiliation factor.

Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.

Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.

Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.

I don't believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.

I think that if you're a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well.

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.

To write is a humiliation.

Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.

To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.