Quotes about Ego

We tell ourselves, It's important to get a sense of what people are saying about me.' But it really feeds some narcissistic impulse to check and see if people like you.

Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'.

How could someone who had so little respect for people be so dependent on what they thought of him?

Wheresoever we seek our own, there we fall from love.

Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

Well, most of the time I do what feels right. But I admit there are times when I give in to my ego. Sometimes the rationalizations are so good that it's easy to sidestep what's right. But eventually you do always realize if you haven't been true to yourself. There's that tiny niggling but persistent voice at the back of your head that is not very easy to ignore for long.

Yow. Guys can be so insecure.

We are imprisoned in our small selves, thinking only of the comfortable conditions for this small self, while we destroy our large self.

Kevin Owens? He couldn't rock with me. It just wouldn't happen.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.