Quote by M. John Harrison Download Open image ““…there is endless despair at the centre of every narcissistic self-portrait.”” — M. John Harrison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“And narcissists don’t love themselves. They hardly have any selves to begin with. They put all their energy into the fake image that they… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“A small amount of self-appreciation and narcissism is indispensable for us to live.” — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.” — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“You love yourself and you are happy, and what you perceive as self-loathing and misery are really outside of you.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“I can just conceive of the pit of despair, the notion of being powerless and the essence of existence through it entirely” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“It is clear to me now that, owing to my unbounded vanity and to the high standard I set for myself, I often looked… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The main reason I felt foolish and humiliated was because of - what had I called it to myself, only a few days previously?… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“One simple thing to do and destroy the spirit of self-sabotage is to admire the beauty hidden in ugly circumstances.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison. — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“As they moved from exhibit to exhibit like reluctant tourists in some artist's studio, Buffin sat on a stool with his limbs tense. He… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“He ran toward the light. When he passed the corpse of his dead friend, he began to weep again. He picked up his sword.… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“Some internal process held him rapt. He had begun, perhaps, to map the paths inside himself which led to the Past. This gave him… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less. — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“You can't cure people of their character,' she read. After this he had crossed something out then gone on, 'You can't even change yourself.… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds the knife;… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
