Quotes About Narcissism

they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.

Whatever was going on between my parents, I suppose that my fantasy of self-sufficiency, my heavy investment in my own mind, is also a kind of narcissistic cathexis.

EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

I suppose some men just love the sound of their own voices.

When all is said and done, there is no shortcut to Nirvana. But in this narcissistic age of instant gratification and swift solution, the great deception of channeling is that we may glide effortlessly back to the Godhead. All we have is pay our money, take our seats and dream on as loving discarnates lead us to enlightenment. Why, the Big E. is just around the corner and anyway - didn't you know? - we are God.

Vanity is of no value

Kernberg has found narcissistic patients to be filled with "intense hatred and fear of the image of a dangerous, aggressive mother," a fear which, he says, "represents a projection of his own aggression, linked to the rage caused by his frustration by mother.

I felt like everywhere I went, I was surrounded by people who were broadcasting but not receiving. Narcissism, it occurred to me, is a corruption of attention - it's where your attention becomes turned in only on yourself and your own ego.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

Reality TV is the perfect antidote to people who don't have enough self-centered douchebags in their life.

Here is a truth: people are very fascinated by themselves.

It is a mark of a narcissistic age that some Christians have come to interpret these words as suggesting that we make Jesus present by means of our community, when exactly the reverse is the case. The only reason why Christians gather is that Jesus has already united us. We gather not in our names but in His name. It is He who has called us out of the darkness of egoism into His wonderful light.

La comunicación de los sentimientos, además, no es en sí ni por sí misma suficiente para la intimidad. En la medida en que tal comunicación está ligada con el narcisismo, se trata de una oferta de poder más que de una contribución al desarrollo del amor confluente.

Sun worshippers? No. These people were here because they worshipped themselves.

Over the years I have heard all the psychological analysis which says that habitually tardy people are narcissists and I don't buy it. I'm late because I am always trying to do one more thing for my family before I leave the door.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.

My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else.

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

I just find there's nothing funnier and more scary than a delusional man who thinks they're the center of the universe, and in fact they're not.

The traits my grandfather came to value in Donald were the traits that were a result of my grandfather's maltreatment of Donald - the bullying, the tendency not to care about other people's feelings, the willingness to cheat, lie to get what he wanted. And eventually, my grandfather started to see a kindred spirit.

I need theatre for my equilibrium, because in theatre the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity - you are more independent. There is not the narcissism, maybe, that you find in cinema.

The Beats, like their successors in the Sixties, have often been described as 'idealists'. But fantasies of total gratification are not the product of idealism. They arise from a narcissism that, finding the world unequal to its desires, retreats into a realm of heedless self-absorption. Modesty, convention, and self-restraint then appear as the enemies rather than as the allies of humanity. In this sense, the Beat generation marks a step away from civilization.

narcissists sense that their partner will inevitably see how inadequate they are and leave for someone else. Rather than wait for that reality, they'd rather control the inevitability and leave first.