44 Quotes About Self-importance

What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions such as a belief in the uniqueness of my personal scrap of consciousness and the cosmic importance therof, and went on from there.

Like many men who consider their success incomplete, he was extraordinarily vain and consumed with a sense of his own importance.

Behold me - I am a Line, the longest in Lineland, over six inches of Space - "Of Length," I ventured to suggest. Fool, said he, Space is Length.

Don't think of yourself as special or important. Just be ordinary.

The size of one’s house might bear a relationship to the size of one’s opinion of oneself, but it had nothing to do with one’s real worth.

Packing is one of those many things that I feel I know more about than any other person living. (It surprises me myself, sometimes, how many of these subjects there are.)

What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?

before feminism was, Paglia was!