Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.
Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.
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?
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.
Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.
It takes strong men and women to love. . . people strong enough inside themselves to love. . . without humiliation.
Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.
I walked along Nevsky Avenue. Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.
There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price.
Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.
I started lip-synching with "Losing My Religion. " There were a few horrendous mistakes we made, but I own those mistakes. I'm embarrassed by them. I always say when I look back at anything I've ever done, it's with equal dollops of humiliation and triumphant glory.
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.
To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.
We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which is both the necessary precondition and the consequence of faith, faith without any hope of compensation other than he can find in a faith which reality seems so thoroughly to refute.
Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape, intensifying the slightest feelings of either delight or shame. No other experience makes so obvious the realities of both heaven and hell.
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.
Art is born of humiliation.