Ignominy Quotes

• The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

  Milan Kundera

  Mistake, Choices, Matter

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• That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

  William Butler Yeats

  Growing Up, Pain, Men

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Failure, Thinking, Cost

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• The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Would Be, Labels, Cadillacs

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). "LOS PEORES AÑOS DE NUESTRAS VIDAS", Pantheon

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• Aunque procedas en línea directa de Hércules, si muestras una mezquindad rastrera, esa larga sucesión de antepasados a los que deshonras son otros tantos testigos en tu contra; y esta gran exhibición de su gloria empañada sólo sirve para hacer más evidente tu ignominia.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Largas, Líneas, Ancestrales

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• There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Mother, Baby, Blood

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Sea cual sea la ignominia o la desgracia en que hayamos incurrido, casi siempre está en nuestra mano restablecer nuestra reputación.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  Reputation, Disgrace

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• They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.

  Ignacio de Loyola

  Media, Hombres, Dar

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• One has to live with the ignominy of a garish sticker slapped over one's face, proclaiming '?

  Michael Heseltine

  Book, Faces, Sticker

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• At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

  Robert Walser

  Suffering, Weakness, Misery

  Robert Walser (2012). “Berlin Stories”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• El deber de uno es sentir lo grande, apreciar lo bello y no aceptar las convenciones de la sociedad con la ignominia que nos impone.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Flannels, Cherish

  Gustave Flaubert (2015). “The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs and Letters: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Flaubert by Guy de Maupassant, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence”, p.142, e-artnow

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• Molly works because, while Watson is ‘the audience’, Molly is every woman of a certain age sitting at home on the settee fantasizing about running their hands through Benedict Cumberbatch's hair. ...Also, I think most people have experienced the agony and the ignominy of unrequited love. I’ve never thought Molly was an idiot. She just really, really loves him.

  Louise Brealey

  Running, Home, Unrequited Love

  "Louise Brealey: 'I don't think Molly is really Sherlock's type'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2012.

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• Si deseas vaciar hasta las heces la copa más llena de desprecio y odio que un ser humano pueda derramar por ti, deja que una joven madre te oiga llamar "eso" a su querido bebé.

  T. S. Eliot

  Divertido, Mamá, Madre

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• What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of Days has become an infant. He Who sits upon the sublime and heavenly Throne, now lies in a manger. And He Who cannot be touched, Who is simple, without complexity, and incorporeal, now lies subject to the hands of men. He Who has broken the bonds of sinners, is now bound by an infant's bands. But He has decreed that ignominy shall become honor, infamy be clothed with glory, and total humiliation the measure of His Goodness.

  San Juan Crisóstomo

  Lying, Simple, Men

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• Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the ignominy that would be the result if the attempt was abandoned.

  Iain Pears

  Powerful, Believe, Journey

  Iain Pears (1999). “AN Instance of the Fingerpost”, p.13, Penguin

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• Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Glasses, Sea

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.67, Modern Library

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• I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

  Thomas Browne

  Death, Ashamed, Disgrace

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 40

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• At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.

  Anais Nin

  Suicide, June, Imagination

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• No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought. ...If therefore a people will not be free; if they have not virtue enough to maintain their liberty against a presumptuous invader, they deserve no pity, and are to be treated with contempt and ignominy.

  Samuel Adams

  People, Liberty, Yoke

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• Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.

  Che Guevara

  Brother, Fighting, Order

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.52, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Nature, Phrases, Pursuit

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• Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly sliding down the path to failure. If a straight, honorable path has been chosen, the gaining of the summit yields lasting satisfaction. The morass of failure, if through laziness, indifference or other avoidable fault, yields nothing but ignominy and sorrow for self and family and friends.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Yield, Climbing

  "Keys to Success".

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• Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and rosaries who constantly drone into our ears 'Duty, duty!' Ah! by Jove! one's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Feet, Sick

  Gustave Flaubert (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated)”, p.195, Delphi Classics

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• You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I don't you like you, either.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Unique, Special, Like You

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• La Iglesia tardó en aceptar la ignominia de la cruz. Los padres de la Iglesia prohibieron su representación en el arte hasta el reinado del emperador romano Constantino .... Ahora, sin embargo, el símbolo está en todas partes: los artistas golpean el oro para darle la forma del dispositivo de ejecución romano, los jugadores de béisbol se persignan antes de batear y los pasteleros incluso hacen cruces de chocolate para que los fieles se las coman durante la Semana Santa. Por extraño que parezca, el cristianismo se ha convertido en la religión de la cruz: la horca, la silla eléctrica, la cámara de gas, en términos modernos.

  Philip Yancey

  Béisbol, Arte, Padre

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