Quotes About Ego

I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.

Love is a worn-out word. People love their cat, they love their house. I've never been in love with anyone but myself.

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

Every time truth comes we hate it, because it's coming against our ego. Are you going to let the ego come between you and this person you love?

Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.

Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.

Every man believes to some extent that the world began when he was born and, at the moment of leaving it, suffers at having to let the Universe remain unfinished.

Roger is a powerful, confident, good-looking man kept awake at nights by the heart-gripping fear that other people don't think he is powerful, confident, and good-looking.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.

Her love for her own image was not cold aestheticism. She valued that image not for its own sake, but for sake of the glory it always won for her.

Why do I go there? Where's my, what do you call it, "ego-defense mechanism"?

Manchmal ging er mir auf die Nerven wie alle Künstler, die sich für höhere oder tiefere Wesen halten, bloss weil sie nicht wissen, was Elektrizität ist.

the direction taken by our vanity is not, as it appears to be, the direction towards our self, but away from our self.

The sinful nature is all about self: pleasing self, promoting self, preserving self. Sin is selfish.

When small people start casting big shadows it is time for sunset.

Biography is often a transparent contest for possession.

his wagon to a star. He still thinks he's the star. And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon…at least some of the time." Oh!

It's about time we stop mistaking self-knowledge for self-absorption—and realize that nobody has a monopoly on selfishness.

the trials and tensions of the world take us back behind our ego where the Divine Self is waiting, that part I know is truth. We aren't the God of the Western world, but each of us is a piece of the Divine. Pain and loss initiate us to our oneness with each other, God, and life. Nothing can separate us from God, no matter how alone we feel.