Lisa Unger Quotes

ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

We judge people in areas where we're vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we're doing.

I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside.

Sometimes the funnier you are, the more vulnerable and scared you are underneath it all. So I think, for me, comedy was always a defense. It was a weapon so that you can't hurt me.

It is really hard when your life is scrutinized by people who don't know you and who don't really know what the situation is. So I avoid the good and the bad and just try to live in a world where I can insulate myself from whatever is out there.

The Vixen character is not quite me. A part of that is putting up this huge front of being strong, impenetrable, really tough and a little bit condescending.

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.

And you call yourself a Christian,' were Hilly's words to me and I thought, God. When did I ever do that?

By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected.

Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall around oneself, withdrawing in one's relationship with others in order not to be hurt more. In that there is fear and a gradual isolation. Now, we are asking: Is it possible not only to be free of past hurts but also never to be hurt again?

Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.

Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.

The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.