Monica Lewinsky Quotes

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.

There's tremendous shame with being bullied. I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don't even understand.

Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)

It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.

Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.

There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

Being bullied is something I experienced in school, and it is not fun.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.

I was bullied at school, so I didn't much like it.

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so large by then that, in the heat, my thighs chafed together and bled. I was very unhappy, and yet no one ever asked me how I felt.

I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

I know what it's like to be left out... I certainly went through a period of time where I got made fun of and people were so mean to me, so I can really relate to that.

I got picked on a lot as a kid.

I was bullied about everything, from the way I looked to the fact that my father had been a dancer.

I was made fun of by a lot of other kids in such a way that I didn't feel like I was human.

People have pain - they do regrettable things, they feel shame, and shame equals pain.

I can't stand it when people get bullied or feel ugly or worthless.

I was bullied.

I experienced bullying in different forms.