Sherwood Anderson Quotes

According to the spirit of this age, the ultimate sin is no longer the failure to honor and thank God but the failure to esteem oneself. Self-abasement, not God-abasement, is the evil. And the cry of deliverance is not "O wretched man that I am, who will deliver me?" but "O worthy man that I am, would that I could only see it better"!

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

I'm vain.

Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

I've always been a narcissist.

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don't like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

I have such an ego 'cause I'm a double Leo. I can't let go of me, you know, so it's very difficult for me to be somebody else and not me. I'm so into me.

I have a lot of vanity.

I'm too conceited for therapy.

I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world.

If you see a man who is so obviously impressed with his own appearance, then you wonder what his priorities are.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

I like to think I'm not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.

You know, I Google search my own name because I'm so self-obsessed!

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

I've got a big ego, I admit it; I'm ego-driven.

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.