Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

I'm the shyest megalomaniac you're ever likely to meet.

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

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

The most important word in American, in Western culture, is "I."

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Narcissism, like the other personality disorders, is a condition that's known as ego-syntonic. In other words, the paranoid person really does believe that people are after him, and the narcissist really does believe that he or she is better than or more entitled than other people, and truly doesn't see why that's not the case.

Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?

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

Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

I do all the work so it's only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome.

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

I want you," he muttered. "Get rid of him and take me. The only risk is losing someone you don't have anyway. He's not what you need, Ella. I am" "Unbelievable," I said in disgust. "What's unbelievable?" "Your ego. It's surrounded by its own cloud of antimatter. You're a black hole of...of hubris!

Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.

There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.