Narcissus Quotes

26 quotes by 23 authors

Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But… — Robert Greene
Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Nature is none other than God in things... Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things... Think… — Giordano Bruno
Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others. — Jean Lorrain
Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love. — Mason Cooley
Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend. — Edward Dahlberg
Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster… — John Walford
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as… — John Ruskin
To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a… — Tom Stoppard
Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy. — Pope Francis
The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because,… — Paulo Coelho
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the… — Truman Capote
I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus. — Jasper Fforde
When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives… — Michael Ondaatje
I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this… — Herman Melville
What are you talking about?" Narcissus demanded. "I am amazing. Everyone knows this." "Amazing at pure suck," Leo said. "If I was as suck as… — Rick Riordan
Stop!" Narcissus got to his feet. "This is not right! This person is obviously not awesome, so he must be..." He struggled for the right… — Rick Riordan
I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did. — Frank O'Hara
Leo took out a pen and autographed the arm of one of the nymphs. â€œNarcissus is a loser! Heâ€™s so weak, he canâ€™t bench-press a… — Rick Riordan

Who Wrote These Narcissus Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 26 Narcissus Quotes as follows: