Narcissus Quotes - Page 2

• Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.

  Giordano Bruno

  Nature, Crocuses, All Things

  "Elements of Pantheism". Book by Paul Harrison, 1999.

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• We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.

  Sarah Waters

  Sweet, Believe, Oysters

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• 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

  Animal, Thinking, Roosters

  "Elements of Pantheism". Book by Paul Harrison, 1999.

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• Stop!" Narcissus got to his feet. "This is not right! This person is obviously not awesome, so he must be..." He struggled for the right words. It had probably been a long time since he'd talked about anything other than himself. "He must be tricking us." Apparently Narcissus wasn't completely stupid.

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Feet, Long

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• When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Mean, Eye, Army

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.151, A&C Black

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• 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

  Sun, Moments, That Moment

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.295, CUP Archive

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• Narcissus turned and scowled at Leo. “Who are you?” “I’m the Super-sized McShizzle, man!” Leo said. “I’m Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme. And the ladies love a bad boy.

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Men, Bad Boy

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

  Allen Tate

  Vocabulary, Mortality, Hermes

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.11, Macmillan

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• 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

  Garden, Six Months, Hackers

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• 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

  War, Eye, Artist

  Tom Stoppard (2011). “Travesties”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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