W. H. Auden Quotes

I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people.

Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.

I get really very upset when I'm voted out, and I feel very disappointed.

Five minutes before I went on, I looked at my manager and said, I'm going to get booed. I know it's going to happen. And you're responsible because you put me on here. It was horrible. I've never been more hurt in my entire life.

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalog ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest hour and a half.

I certainly was not going to add to his humiliation in the hour of defeat.

You have a bad day at the office, four people know. You suck in a movie, everyone knows.

I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.

Anyone can lose a fight. That doesn't bother me. But the shame that comes afterwards is unbearable.

Getting booed off, definitely not the best feeling.

Once I got beat by Mayweather I felt so ashamed. I cancelled all my functions, all my appearances, I didn't want to walk down the street. I was too embarrassed to even go and have a pint with my mates.

All our careers end the same: Face down and embarrassed.

Getting kicked out of Cube has tarnished my reputation and disgraced myself.

The worst is when you bomb and when you bomb in front of someone you're trying to impress. That's the worst.

I go to the British Comedy Awards and, you know, quite a few people were making jokes at my expense. It just made me feel awful, because I am there with my wife and she has gone out and bought a dress. And it is my big night and I won, and yet the overriding experience was that of nastiness.

You create something, and when it doesn't work, it's kind of like people make fun of your kid or something.

Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.

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

I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop]

Klaus Wulfenbach: Was my son upset? Bangladesh DuPree: Oh, him? Yeah! He's all set to be a hero and rescue her--and then he finds out he'd need fireplace tongs to get her undressed? Yeah, upset is the word.