Carl Jung Quotes

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

We humans find it difficult to resist infection by hubris..

Personally, I think getting obsessed with yourself is the most dangerous thing.

Most things good for writing are bad for life.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

People can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard.

In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

Instead of asking "what’s the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?

For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence.

Even the creative things feel mathematic, almost.