Comte de Lautreamont Quotes

I know I am very beautiful.

What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.

One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.

I should have more vanity.

Go out and face the world secure in the knowledge that everybody else thinks they are better looking than they are as well.

There were times that I thought I was good looking.

If you go through my Instagram feed, it's like a flip book of me thinking I'm way more attractive than I am. It's nauseating.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

I think I'm still, in many ways, a terribly self-conscious person. I'd probably be shooting and think, "Well, how does my hair look?"

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.

Clearly I've got an ego.

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

I never thought of myself as handsome.