Susan Sontag Quotes

I know what it's like to be humiliated.

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.

Fire is more bearable than disgrace.

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

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience.

I am a man whose mind has been ulcerated with a variety of embarrassments for 30 weary months.

I was embarrassing against Spinks.

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

Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.

At least it was instant. At least there wasn't any pain." I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't get it. There was pain. A dul endless pain in my gut that wouldn't go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving.

It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.

There is no love without suffering.

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.

I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.

Let me show you how it's done... Loser!

I don't believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.

I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.