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“He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.”
― Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga

“Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, they think it is better to keep their stupidest thoughts to themselves. You, however, understand the profound truth that you must reveal your stupidity openly. To hold your stupidity inside you is to embrace it, to cling to it, to protect it. But when you expose your stupidity, you give yourself the chance to have it caught, corrected, and replaced with wisdom. Be brave, all of you, like Nero Boulanger, and when you have a thought of such surpassing ignorance that you think it's actually smart, make sure to make some noise, to let your mental limitations squeak out some whimpering fart of a thought, so that you have a chance to learn.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“According to Tobias, women hang around longer because they’re less capable of indignation and better at being humiliated, for what is old age but one long string of indignities? What person of integrity would put up with it?”
― Margaret Atwood, Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

“Then she is on me. Her soft, hot body collapses onto my own ravenous frame. She pushes my legs open with her knees and pulls my arms above my head with her hands, holding me a willing hostage. For one long moment we are eye to eye. Her breasts press down into my nipples, goading them but offering no release, and then her lips come crashing down on mine. She kisses me as though she already owns me; exploring my mouth with her tongue, dragging it aggressively from one side of my lips to the other.”
― Felicity Brandon, Customer Service

“Good choice, Polly,â€� she soothes, caressing my long, dark hair.

“You may not have been fucked by a woman before but, if you’re a good girl now, then you soon will beâ€�”
― Felicity Brandon, Customer Service

“Please don't humiliate me by killing yourself before we can save your life.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“I guess I don't know my daughter very well. Because the Jude I knew would cut out that boy's heart for what he did to you tonight.'

At the shame of having the revel thrown in my face, I snap. 'You let me be humiliated in Faerie from the time I was a child. You've let Folk hurt me and laugh at me and mutilate me.' I hold up the hand with the missing fingertip, where one of his own guards bit it clean off. Another scar is at its centre, from where Dain forced me to stick a dagger through my hand. 'I've been glamoured and carried in to a revel, weeping and alone. As far as I can tell, the only difference between tonight and all the other nights when I endured indignities without complaint is that those benefited you, and when I endure this, it benefits me.'

Madoc looks shaken. 'I didn't know.'

'You didn't want to know,' I return.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“In that one stolen second, I considered the Glebe girl. She entered my mind like a burglar, them vanished again, taking nothing. It was like the humiliation of the past had been dragged instantly from my back and left somewhere on the ground.”
― Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl

“Whatever you do to me,' I say, too angry to stay quiet, 'I can do worse to you.'

'Oh,' he says, fingers tight on mine. 'Do not think I forget that for a moment.'

'Then why?' I demand.

'You believe I planned your humiliation?' He laughs. 'Me? That sounds like work.'

'I don't care if you did or not,' I tell him, too angry to make sense of my feelings. 'I just care that you enjoyed it.'

'And why shouldn't I delight to see you squirm? You tricked me,,' Cardan says. 'You played me for a fool, and now I am the King of Fools.'

'The High King of Fools,' I say, a sneer in my voice. Our gazes meet, and there's a shock of mutual understanding that our bodies are pressed too closely. I am conscious of my skin, of the sweat beading on my lip, of the slide of my thighs against each other. I am aware of the warmth of his neck beneath my twined fingers, of the prickly brush of his hair and how I want to sink my hands in to it. I inhale the scent of him- moss and oakwood and leather. I stare at his treacherous mouth and imagine it on me.

Everything about this is wrong.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Hmmm,â€� you muse out loud. Your voice is deep and carnal, a sound which sends new surges of desire rushing to my sex. “These balls are awfully dusty - if only I knew a little slut who was good at polishing ballsâ€�”
― Felicity Brandon, Hide & Seek

“For a moment, a desire for vengeance rises in me. Once, she laughed at my humiliation. Now I could gloat before hers.

This is what power feels like, pure unfettered power. It's great.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Very few people can watch others endure humiliation without recognizing the part they play in increasing it.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird

“The awful reality of life is that kids can sometimes be ruthless toward one another. Kidding, teasing, taunting, and mocking with sadistic sarcasm, they have exterminated innumerable self-esteems. Some are more adept at Humiliation 101 than they are at math or science. It's a choice between homework and hassling a weaker member of the human race. And the latter often wins out. No wonder. It's much more fun to obliterate a person's already fragile self-image than it is to work fractions for some teacher who attended school with your grandmother. It's an art form, actually, with some kids as budding Rembrandts. Whether vocal or unspoken, direct or passive, it's always destructive. Like an arrow, the rejection a young person feels plunges deep within, causing a wound that can take decades to heal.”
― Jeff Kinley

“There are women who have forgotten that to be a woman doesn't simply mean humiliation, doesn't simply mean bitterness. I haven't forgotten it yet," she added, "in spite of you.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Humiliation prickled him while he picked at the fragments of glass, as though an unseen audience had judged his life and found him wanting. Not his circumstances, not his orientation, but him, himself, whole.”
― Redfern Jon Barrett, Proud Pink Sky

“The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness. Ultimately, it's not for them. It's for me.”
― Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

“Cardan steps close to me, his gaze devouring. I am not sure I can bear his cutting me down again. Luckily, he seems at a loss for words.

'I hate you,' I whisper before he can speak.

He tilts my face to him.

'Say it again,' he says as the imps comb my hair and place the ugly stinking crown on my head. HIs voice is low. The words are for me alone.

I pull out of his grip, but not before I see his expression. He looks as he did when he was forced to answer my questions, when he admitted his desire for me. He looks as though he's confessing.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Sense such humiliation, combined with prohibiting a child's verbal expression, is a constant and universally encountered factor in child-rearing, the influence of this factor in the child's later development is easily overlooked.”
― Alice Miller, For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“There’s a difference between humiliation and humility. Humiliation lies. Humility speaks truth. Humiliation silences you. Humility empowers you. Humiliation is a byproduct of conflict with someone else. Humility is a byproduct of peace within yourself.
The goal of humiliation is to make you hate yourself. Humility requires us to love our ‘me of the momentâ€� selves with compassion and good humor, making way for better selves we know we can be.”
― Kristin Chenoweth, I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts: Mini-Meditations for Saints, Sinners, and the Rest of Us

“It's almost pathetic, that you're so thoroughly lacking in charm that Lisavet could never lower herself to love you. A low-ranking casttoff in the House of your birth—a bastard son, beloved by no one—and now the only way for you to realize your ambition is to pick at the leavings of another's inheritance like a vulture stripping meat from a bloated corpse. At least, that's what's rumored. Tell us, Ivor, is it true? Or would you prefer to forfeit in the interest of protecting what little remains of your dignity?”
― Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

“Misery wreaks havoc. The yawning gap between this place and the rest of the country is unfathomable to anyone who has not experienced it. Boko Haram recruits them like child's play because the sect at least offers a tangible, immediate solution. As shocking as we might find it, their message appeals to some. Dying for God is more thrilling than dying of hunger, humiliation, or because the neighbourhood dispensary has run out of antibiotics. Maybe one day someone will study just how personally distressed one must be to weaponise faith against one's own people, but that is not my job.”
― Hemley Boum, Days Come and Go

“Greed has no shame.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“How helpless the dead are, Nell thinks. What humiliations occur to them. Not that they care.”
― Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

“And he dreaded prison more than anything, not because survival in the gourbis was any
better, but because nothing would be more humiliating than being labeled a criminal. He had inherited a sense of honour that gave him â€� he, the poorest of the poor â€� the pride of a blind man and the humility of a prince.”
― Sima Samar, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan

“Why must they laugh at me, as if I am their friend? They barely know me, and if a child on the other side of the world did the same they wouldn't give a rat's ass.”
― Alex Athans

“Today, looking back on the six years of that war, I realize that the worst thing I endured in the Holocaust was not the hunger, the cold, or the beatings; it was the humiliation. It was almost impossible to bear the helplessness of unjustified humiliation. Helplessness becomes linked with that dishonor.”
― Israel Meir Lau, Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last

“The stranger and the crowd are the stutterer's nightmare.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Stuttering was such a huge blow to the psyche, such that you felt like you had won a trophy if you spoke and did not stutter.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“It can be so unpleasant to tell the truth when the result is your own humiliation. People often forget that.”
― Rebecca Ryder, The Dream To End All Dreams

“Humiliation is a great silencer. Isn’t that how people are played, consciously or unconsciously? Take away the capacity for humiliation, and there is nothing left to play with.”
― Donna Goddard, Sonder: Spiritual Fiction