Loss of Dignity Quotes

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

She's got about as much respect as an iguana swimming around in your bathtub

Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

Who brought the Palestinians to Lebanon as refugees, suffering now from the malign attitude of newspapers and communal leaders, who have neither honor nor conscience? Who brought them over in dire straits and penniless, after they lost their honor? The Arab states, and Lebanon amongst them, did it.

It was really tough being in jail. It doesn't get much lower. You're in a filthy room. The food is terrible, and you're surrounded by people who have done all types of crazy crimes. You have nothing that belongs to you, not even your own underwear. It's just terrible.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.

I feel like I have just become public property.

It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

There are corporate environments where a person has dedicated their life to working hard, and then they're fired with a security person escorting them out the door. I find that so demeaning and disrespectful.

It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon.

Scotland has long groaned under the chains of England and knows that its connection there has been the source of its greatest misfortunes …. We bartered our liberty, and with it our morals, for a little wealth.

Chasing after a guy who's not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it'll be.

Anyone who is concerned about his dignity would be well advised to keep away from horses.

A great man, who lives intimately with his admirers, with difficulty escapes being made ridiculous.

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.

I was a piece of meat. I was betrayed by the business of football.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

How long before my dignity is reclaimed?

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

She used to be a teacher but she has no class now.

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.