Quotes About Megalomania

#1. There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

Max Lerner

#2. Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.

Lucy Freeman

#3. He's quite as nervously broken down as I am, but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is toward megalomania and mine toward melancholy.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. To be a screenwriter is to deal with an ongoing tug of war between breathtaking megalomania and insecurity so deep it takes years of therapy just to be able to say "I'm a writer" out loud.

Blake Snyder

#5. I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day.

Angela Carter

#6. You're certainly not alone in your megalomania. Everyone feels that way-and for good reason. Because it's true!

Lon Milo DuQuette

#7. To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.

Stephen Rodrick

#8. American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.

Philip Johnson

#9. At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

Winston Churchill

#10. Denying realism amounts to megalomania.

Karl R. Popper

#11. The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what he DID NOT know.

David Halberstam

#12. There exists no greater megalomania than thinking that we are all alone in this cosmic ocean!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help.

Pat Conroy

#14. The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.

A.E. Samaan

#15. Rabbit and Owl are aging bachelors whose respective megalomania and fussiness are tempered only by their mutual friendship, of which the less said, the better.

Frederick C. Crews

#16. Char me the trunk of a redwood tree. Give me pages of white chalk cliffs to write upon. Magnify me thousands of times, and replace my trifling immodesties with a titanic megalomania - then might I write largely enough for our subjects.

Charles Fort

#17. Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.

Cassandra Clare

#18. Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. But I wasn't there to treat the incurable ills of megalomania.

Walter Mosley

#20. If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Margaret Atwood

#21. Without God we are left with a choice of succumbing to megalomania or erotomania.

Edward Feser

#22. Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.

Nathan Myhrvold

#23. If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#24. Human megalomania will have suffered its third and most wounding blow from the psychological research of the present time which seeks to prove to the ego that it is not even master in its own house, but must content itself with scanty information of what is going on unconsciously in its mind.

Sigmund Freud

#25. Adonis Benoit. What were his parents smoking when they named him? Talk about overly conceited. It was no wonder he had a penchant for megalomania.

Em Wolf

#26. Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#27. Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Mary Douglas

#28. I bet Richard Fuld doesn't have an ounce of contrition. It's just megalomania. When it's like that, you need rules to prevent catastrophe. When banks are borrowing the government's credit rating, you need rules to prevent stupid things.

Charlie Munger

#29. M's plan would put Blake right up there in the history books with Alexander, with Charlemagne, with Napoleon. One of the most powerful men ever to have lived. Viceroy of the Americas.

Lisa Marie Rice

#30. If you're completely off your rocker and have delusions of grandeur in which your personal existence is of special significance to the rest of the world, all hope is not lost. Mix in enough charisma and you have what it takes to start a religion ... or become a serial killer.

Edward M. Wolfe

#31. Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

Robert A. Heinlein

#32. The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria Magazine

#33. Who are you? he asked.
I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me as Mistress Koboi for the next five minutes. After that you may refer to me as Aaaaarrrrgh, hold your throat, die screaming, and so on.

Eoin Colfer

#34. Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.

Marty Rubin

#35. Man cannot be content in his riches even if he has the whole world, there must be a frivolous extra desire.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#36. Motives for greed and selfishness are often attributed to toil and source of riches.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#37. He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.

T. J. Stiles

#38. Is that a serious question? I'm God! I know things."

"Sure. Sure," Freud flipped to the front page of his notebook. At the top of the page scribbled the word megalomaniac, "Please, go on.

Dylan Callens

#39. It would not do to be Lord of a universe inhabited solely by serfs.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#40. But what I learned from the Widow's Hand is that whose who would be gods fear no one so much as other potential deities

Salman Rushdie