Fragile Ego Quotes

It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.

The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.

A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It takes very little to raise me up or thrust me down. Often I am like a small boat on the ocean, completely at the mercy of its waves. All the time and energy I spend in keeping some kind of balance and preventing myself from being tipped over and drowning shows my life is mostly a struggle for survival: not a holy struggle, but an anxious struggle resulting from the mistaken idea that it is the world that defines me.

Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer from insomnia and insecurity. These mammals are also necessarily vain in the ­extreme, and often wish to be liked almost as much as they desire to be feared.

So many things I thought I was doing have fallen apart. Until I've finished filming, I don't believe I have the job.

Fragile egos are put on the line every day.

I was thinking that I might fly today. Just to disprove all the things you say... please be careful with me, I'm sensitive, and I'd like to stay that way.

I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful.

I don't want want to go to jail, I'm fragile.

I was so young when I got so famous, and then I kind of put up a wall around myself. I didn't really want to show people any fragilities or fears; I was trying to be this tough person that I felt was expected of me.

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

There is a strand of self-absorption and fragility running through this generation; all too ready to cry 'victim' at the first hint of a situation they don't like.

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

I'm thin-skinned in a way that's just dumb.

So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

[He] was at his best only when the going was good.