Quotes About Ego

Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?

I don't like you, Debbie snarled. You're cocky and arrogant. You don't have to like me, Steve retorted. This isn't a popularity contest. It's a matter of life and death.

Don't flatter yourself to think this is your doing. Your problem is that you think things have happened for the first time to you, and that you're the fulcrum from which all people and the current world pivot.

I'm better than you think. I'm even better than I think I am.

The narcissist could not feel empathy toward others. Which meant that the lives of others held no value to a narcissist. Killing could even be like a hit of fentanyl: instant euphoria from the domination and destruction of another. That was why virtually every serial murderer was also a narcissist.

People often discounted narcissism as relatively harmless because the term sometimes conjured the clichéd image of a vain man staring longingly at his reflection in a pool of water or a mirror.

Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's. "And

It was called 'the Big Lie' technique, Johnny. Just sound like you know what you're talking about—as if you're citing real facts. Talk very fast. Weave your lies into the shape of a conspiracy theory and repeat your assertions over and over again. Those who want an excuse to hate or blame—those with big but weak egos—will leap at a simple, neat explanation for the way the world is. Those types will never call you on the facts.

Magic and art arise from an egomaniac's insistence that the artist is right, and the universe wrong.

humans wrestled endlessly with their own overpowering egos. Some tried suppressing selfness, seeking detachment. Others subsumed personal ambition in favor of a greater whole—family, religion, or a leader. Later they passed through a phase in which individualism was extolled as the highest virtue, teaching their young to inflate the ego beyond all natural limits or restraint.

We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.

Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back, Beldin said sourly.

Vanity's ridiculous, be we all fall prey to it from time to time.

Cuando necesitas a una persona para llenar tu vida es porque en realidad tienes un vacío dentro de ti. Cuando necesitas a una persona no la amas en el sentido más espiritual del término, porque amar es pasar por encima de ti mismo, por encima de tus necesidades egocéntricas y entregar la esencia de tu alma, el amor.

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.

You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing— your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal.

That no matter how smart you thought you were, you are actually way less smart than that.

so full of himself he could have shit limbs.

a quick intelligence he squanders on an insatiable need to advance some impression of himself—that

You believe you would die twice for another but in truth would die only for your alone self, its sentiment.