1,899 Quotes About Ego

If your ego is in good shape you will pretend you're surprised if a National Chairman calls you to tell you his party wants to nominate you for President of the United States, but you're not really surprised.

There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help.

The steady soul and the ego pretender / walk with their arms round each other's shoulders / through the mirage.

Why do you give way to your ego and pride. Where does it stand in the ocean of time.

...killing Dirk, killing anybody, was not going to change anything apart from Francisco's f***ing ego, which was already large enough to house the world's poor twice over, with a few million bourgeoisie in the spare-room.

Farang, I'll bet you Wall Street against a Thai mango he'll be back, if for no other reason than to play the card of virile youth against Hudson's superior rank and thus restore his ego after that humiliating reprimand.

Sometimes, idolizing from afar feels safer to the ego.

The question: ‘At what point is my ego finally satisfied?’ The answer: ‘At no point’. And that is the point.

Deslumbrado y alterado por esa luz, pero también por ser únicamente el doctor Pasavento, quise creer que todo lo que me pasaba era, simple y llanamente, producto de una fuerte resaca. Porque si uno lo pensaba bien, ¿era verosímil que durante toda la noche un médico, sin duda monstruoso, probablemente un neuroquímico del cerebro, me hubiera implantado la memoria de doctor Pasavento?"Doctor Pasavento. Enrique Vila-Matas (Satán Vivo). p. 172.