“He was filled with embarrassment: embarrassment for the human race, its preoccupation with money, it love of swindle.”
“How embarrassing it is to be human.”
“How embarrassing to be human.”
“It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis that took my heart. A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity.”
“It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and to find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little kinder.”