Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.
Fragile egos are put on the line every day.
Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the Ego. It's the Ego that gets blasted, waxed, plastered.
If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself.
He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.
Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.
The male ego is a terrifying, terrifying thing, you know? If it's shattered, it becomes even more dangerous.
What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us
Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.
A man's ego is just as fragile as a woman's heart
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
