Quotes About Grandiose

Our vast collections of knowledge and experience are just part of ego's display, part of the grandiose quality of ego. We display them to the world and, in so doing, reassure ourselves that we exist, safe and secure, as "spiritual" people.

God would reveal "Himself to anyone who would "listen," and that "He" had a minutely detailed plan for every human life. The sheer chutzpah of this belief is positively breathtaking. It's the most grandiose excuse imaginable for the evasion of individual thought, responsibility, and decision making.

I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.

Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It's only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimes — if necessary — brought down for a time. Then it will rise again, as it must. Clive Barker, Abarat

We were the unflinching prisoners of a grandiose make-believe, we who looked upon ourselves as heard-headed materialists. We dismissed the distress of today, the human wreckage scattered all about us, the terror and militarism prevailing in the country with the stereotyped belief that we were marching forward with great strides.

Death will not be denied. To try is grandiose. It drives madness into the soul. It leaches out virtue. It injects poison into friendship, and makes a mockery of love.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

I do like large entrances, but this was a little too large.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.

A contemptuous Hannity, with grandiose ambitions of his own, insisted that this scenario was ludicrous. He would top the ticket, with Bannon, "if he's lucky," taking the second spot.