1,899 Quotes About Ego

The ego is always looking for support because, essentially, it is very afraid and is constantly failing to give us the happiness it promises. It doesn't know what it is doing. It has delusions of grandeur that unfailingly disappoint. It is a poor guide and companion compared to the spirit, albeit, a loud one. There is a beautiful grandeur in us. If we claim it, we would never again turn to the trifling and pathetic attempts of the ego at grandiosity.

If you seek relief, you will go to people and books that massage your ego, fondle your beliefs, glorify your wounds and strengthen your prejudices. If you seek the truth, you will walk on a burning path which will melt you drop by drop.

Disease intensifies narcissism, especially if it is terminal.

Egos will burn to ashes and find peace but spiritual egos will remain half-burned and suffer till the end of next time cycle.

Leaving footwear is not enough. To enter the temple of God, you've to leave yourself outside no matter how holy you think you're.

Leave the addiction of proving yourself right all the time. I know it'll be a tough change but it'll help you avoid unnecessary clashes with people you care about.

She's tragically scarred with an avant-garde, spastic heart - yet radically guarded (anti-romantic garden) - tactless, though perhaps smarter; and so her soul carries an ego too heavy to be swept off her feet: Modernity's narcissist.

To be pained by someone’s death is to make their death about you.

Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.