Quotes About Narcissism

the psychopath will speak of himself in grandiose terms while blaming others and taking absolutely no responsibility for his actions.

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

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.

People are very narcissistic. It's not all their fault. We live in a society where there is a magazine for you, a channel for you, a perfume for you.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

There was nothing more unattractive than narcissism, she thought: nothing could transform beauty into a cloying, unattractive quality than that self-conscious appreciation of self.

And the problem was that there was a positive epidemic of narcissism, encouraged by commercial manipulation and by the shallow values of Hollywood films. And interestingly enough, the real growth area was male narcissism.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

everyone is a narcissist. Our generation grew up thinking that everyone wants us to Tweet them our every thought. We can't wait to post pictures of a date on Facebook, before the date is even over. Or go on reality television and expose every facet of our lives. Or sext each other naked pictures which end up in cyberspace for all eternity. The privacy that our parents knew is long gone. "But at least we still

To have autonomy without interdependency leads to isolation or narcissism. To have interdependency with no autonomy stunts our psychological growth. Healthy people live in social groups that have learned to balance or, better, marry these two imperatives.

We live in a narcissistic age, which means that many want to have the praise that comes from having read, without the antecedent labor of actually reading.

I might be too strung out on compliments; overdosed on confidence.

Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.

I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

Humility is not a false rejection of God's gifts. To exaggerate the gifts we have by denying them may be as close to narcissism as we can get in life. No, humility is the admission of God's gifts to me and the acknowledgment that I have been given them for others. Humility is the total continuing surrender to God's power in my life and in the lives of others.

A busy woman can't spend whole days in front of mirrors, but she ought to have them all over the house (which improves the décor, too) and make a point of glancing at herself every time she passes one. It's a form of narcissism that pays off. If you are pleased with what you see, chances are he will be, too.

preoccupation with fantasies of success; exhibitionism and insatiable attention-getting maneuvers;

I find that kind of "look at me" narcissism terribly inconsiderate. If you need attention that badly, set yourself on fire.

There is this business of the narcissism of love, the fourth-dimensional curve that takes you out into the other who is the whole world, which is really a twist back into yourself, only a different self.

Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.

Je comprends ce désir de couvrir de cadeaux un être qu'on aime pour manifester l'appartenance (Proust, La prisonnière). Tout en sachant que cela ne sert pas à vous l'attacher, puisqu'il en est seulement fier (de susciter autant d'amour), que cela renforce son narcissisme, lequel joue contre celui qui donne. Ce dernier n'a pas assez de narcissisme. Enfin, moi je l'aime de tout mon vide.