Loss of Pride Quotes

When you go to prison, you don't feel like a superstar. It really humbles you as a person.

What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.

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

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

I feel ever more strongly the awful tragedy of our—the German race--predicament. It seems to me as good as certain that we cannot prevail against England. The English—the best race in the world—can’t lose. But we can lose and will lose, if not this year then next. The idea that our race should be beaten distresses me terribly because I am completely and utterly German.

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.

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

We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.

It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.