Quotes About Narcissus

#1. I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus.

Steven Wright

#2. From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers.

Charles Baudelaire

#3. Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.

Robert Greene

#4. The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:
I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.

Paulo Coelho

#5. Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

Edward Young

#6. I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.

Frank O'Hara

#7. He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.

Galen

#8. To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

Tom Stoppard

#9. But how are you going to die one day, Narcissus, since you have no mother? Without a mother one cannot love. Without a mother one cannot die.

Hermann Hesse

#10. But I loved Narcissus because as he lay on my banks and looked down at me, in the mirror of his eyes I saw ever my own beauty mirrored.

Oscar Wilde

#11. This Narcissus of ours
Can't see his face in the mirror
Because he has become the mirror.

Antonio Machado

#12. What if love is made and nothing else?
asked Narcissus, leaning over the green iris of water.

Nothing else,
cried Echo from the green cochlea of the woods.

And they were both right.
And they were both lonely.

Kapka Kassabova

#13. History is a strange creature. It has the amazing ability to blind us with our own reflection when we peek over its deep mysterious waters. Many of us drown in it just like the mythological Narcissus, whose infatuation with his own beauty was stronger than his survival instincts.

Yanko Tsvetkov

#14. Narcissus is gorgeous. Like, imagine if someone could look exactly like bacon tastes and you have a pretty good picture of Narcissus (unless you're a vegetarian).

Cory O'Brien

#15. Antiquity breached mortality with myths.
Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates
A cornice on the Third National Bank.

Allen Tate

#16. Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

Charles Baudelaire

#17. Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.

Edward Dahlberg

#18. In my garden
the winds have beaten
the ripe lilies;
in my garden, the salt
has wilted the first flakes
of young narcissus.

Hilda Doolittle

#19. If one finds oneself with bread in both hands, that person should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul.

Nazr Mohammed

#20. Nature is none other than God in things ... Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things ... Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.

Giordano Bruno

#21. Sweetly, albeit hoarsely and with a burr, the girl started singing something scarcely comprehensible, but, judging by the women's faces in the stalls, very seductive:
Guerlain, Chanel no 5, Mitsuko, Narcissus noir, evening dresses, cocktail dresses..

Mikhail Bulgakov

#22. Come, let us drink the last raindrop tears from a narcissus cup and fill our souls with the songs of larks.

Kahlil Gibran

#23. You do not see the painting in the attic
The maggots on skin that tear.
The beauty is a trick.
Narcissus - promise naught but air...' ~ Dorian Gray

Stella Coulson

#24. And in his button-hole he stuck a narcissus, hoping it would attract Mary's notice, so that he might have the delight of giving it her.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#25. Vulgarity is an old Narcissus who adores himself and applauds the common vulgarity.

Victor Hugo

#26. What are you talking about?" Narcissus demanded. "I am amazing. Everyone knows this."
"Amazing at pure suck," Leo said. "If I was as suck as you, I'd drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that.

Rick Riordan

#27. I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

Jasper Fforde

#28. And think about the precise meaning of that term: a Narcissus is not proud. A proud man has disdain for other people, he undervalues them. The Narcissus overvalues them, because in every person's eyes he sees his own image, and wants to embellish it. So he takes nice care of all his mirrors.

Milan Kundera

#29. Leo took out a pen and autographed the arm of one of the nymphs. Narcissus is a loser! He's so weak, he can't bench-press a Kleenex. He's so lame, when you look up lame on Wikipedia, it's got a picture of Narcissus - only the picture's so ugly, no one ever checks it out.

Rick Riordan

#30. Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.

Pope Francis

#31. Look to the sky, look to yourself and remember: we are only God's echoes and God is Narcissus.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#32. Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.

Jean Lorrain

#33. Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.

Mason Cooley

#34. Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

W. H. Auden

#35. The first time I saw a narcissus pushing through ice and thriving, I thought it was perfect and wanted that kind of determination for myself.

Paula McLain

#36. I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that he was beautiful. I weep for him because whenever he lay on my banks and looked into my waters, I could see my own beauty reflected in his eyes.

Paulo Coelho

#37. It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror.

Paul Verhaeghe

#38. Lily, look and see Narcissus's true reflection ... - Abram, Seers of Light

Jennifer DeLucy

#39. Never again!" commanded his will.
"Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart.

Hermann Hesse

#40. Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#41. Nature is none other than God in all things.

Giordano Bruno

#42. It wasn't just my beast's hunger, but Jean-Claude's blood thirst and Richard's craving for flesh. It was all that and the ardeur running through all of it, so that one hunger fed into the next in an endless chain, a snake eating it's own tail, an Ouroboros of desires.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#43. You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.

Robert Graves

#44. She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said.
No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#45. I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#46. It is you I have been able to love, you alone in all the world. You can have no idea of what that means. It means a spring in the desert, a blossoming tree in the wilderness.

Hermann Hesse

#47. I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#48. He wanted you dead, now he doesn't, I don't know why. Chimera's crazy, he doesn't need a reason to change his mind.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#49. Forgive me, father, I am not certain what my own wishes are. I shall always take pleasure in study, how could it be otherwise? But I do not believe that my life will be limited to study. A man's wishes may not always determine his destiny, his mission; perhaps there are other predetermining factors.

Hermann Hesse

#50. With men one could have clever, uplifting conversations, and men understood the work of an artist; but everything else-idle talk, tenderness, playfulness, love, contentment unmarred by thought-did not flourish among men; for that there had to be women and new places and constantly new impressions.

Hermann Hesse

#51. Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

Hermann Hesse

#52. She was hell on wheels and used to getting her own way.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#53. While one is singing one does not think about whether of not the singing is useful. One simply sings.

Hermann Hesse

#54. If you're too damn stubborn to let yourself cry, then your body finds other ways to let it out.

Laurell K. Hamilton