Quotes About Megalomania

Matriarchal castration involves loss of masculine consciousness, deflation, and degradation of the ego. Its symptoms are depression, a flowing off of libido into the unconscious, anemia of the conscious system, and an "abaissement du niveau mentdf (Janet). In the inflation of patriarchal castration brought on by the ego's identification with the spirit, the process is the other way around. It leads to megalomania and overexpansion of the conscious system.

It was a poem of volume and geometry without humanity—a little bit of Swiss megalomania come to the North. As Bev says, I have views about the International Style.

Circumstances may have opened the door to a presidential race, but nothing during these months had prevented me from closing it. I could easily close the door still. And the fact that I hadn't, that instead I had allowed the door to open wider, was all Michelle needed to know. If one of the qualifications of running for the most powerful office in the world was megalomania, it appeared I was passing the test.

Estudiar la evolución cultural de la humanidad sin perderse en generalidades parece un proyecto megalómano, condenado al fracaso. No hace falta ser historiador para comprender que la

To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. to this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

'Empire of Self' is a loving portrait of a very difficult man. Jay Parini, himself a gifted novelist, poet and biographer, has gone very deep into the 'black energy' of Gore Vidal's relentless narcissism and megalomania. Parini envisions an epic battle between Vidal's angelic and demonic sides, yet there's very little of the angel in Vidal.

All of a sudden I understood why I was so moody, neurotic, simultaneously paranoid and megalomaniac, mistrustful, uneasy, driven by ambition but paralyzed by guilt about my ambition, horny, obsessive, compulsive, obsessive-compulsive, not to mention shy, withdrawn, and dandruff-ridden. I was creative. All creative people were like that!

To be a screenwriter is to deal with an ongoing tug of war between breathtaking megalomania and insecurity so deep it takes years of therapy just to be able to say "I'm a writer" out loud.

Denying realism amounts to megalomania.

Cu to?ii suferim de megalomanie,ca s? nu trebuiasc? s? pl?tim ve?nica noastr? sibmediocritate.

Takvi smo mi, rekao sam jednom Gambettiju, pravimo se kako smo za sve apsolutno osposobljeni, ?ak i za ono najviše i najve?e od svega, a zatim nismo u stanju ni uzeti pero u ruku kako bismo stavili na papir barem jednu jedinu rije? te naše najavljivane ne?uvenosti i neponovljivosti. Svi mi patimo od megalomanije, rekao sam Gambettiju, kako ne bismo trebali platiti danak toj svojoj neprekidnoj niskosti.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

If it is something that I want to do, then I don't think the audience will hate it. Unless I turn into a megalomaniac and start thinking that Salman Khan can do anything.

The Bear had once confided to me that Durrell's ego could fit snugly in the basilica of St. Peter's in Rome but in very few other public places. This runaway megalomania marked him as a blood member of the fraternity of generals. If looks alone could make generals, Durrell would have been a cinch. He was built lean and slim and dark, like a Doberman. A man of breeding and refrigerated intelligence, he ordered his life like a table of logarithms.

There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help.

There exists no greater megalomania than thinking that we are all alone in this cosmic ocean!

A crude Darwinism? A sadistic fancy? An irresponsible egoism? A megalomania? It was all of these in part. But it was something more. For the mind and the passion of Hitler—all the aberrations that possessed his feverish brain—had roots that lay deep in German experience and thought. Nazism and the Third Reich, in fact, were but a logical continuation of German history.

A crude Darwinism? A sadistic fancy? An irresponsible egoism? A megalomania?

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

It is my image that I want to multiply, but not out of narcissism or megalomania, as could all too easily be believed: on the contrary, I want to conceal, in the midst of so many illusory ghosts of myself, the true me, who makes them move.

Paranoiac people suffer from megalomania, a need to dominate others, feelings of persecution, and a compulsion to falsify the past to fit their view of the world. Fascism, aggression, and anti-Semitism, then, were only symptoms of what ailed Nazi Germany.

If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.