Quotes About Narcissism

Nothing is more hated by a narcissist than an expression of intimacy like, "I love you.

Narcissists identify being loved with being possessed, engulfed, and inevitably discarded.

From the perspective of a narcissist, a person who claims to love them is a fraud, a liar, or blind.

No one can romance and seduce like a narcissist. If a narcissist sees someone they want, then having "it" becomes a project of massive proportions. This person must be possessed at any cost.

June looked around, with a mischievous smile, "We're all in agreement, aren't we, that Mark has a narcissistic personality disorder, and will never change?" No one knew what to say. June laughed. I realized I had been taking myself pretty goldarn seriously. "Why can't you have the Best Sex Ever with a self-centered guy?" I said to myself. "Lighten up.

Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.

When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe.

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.

Narcissists typically make judgments with greater confidence than other people… and, because their judgments are rendered with such conviction, other people tend to believe them and the narcissists become disproportionately more influential in group situations. Finally, because of their self-confidence and strong need for recognition, narcissists tend to "self-nominate"; consequently, when a leadership gap appears in a group or organization, the narcissists rush to fill it.

I said, If there is an explanation of the mystery, it is this: the love between women is a refuge and an escape into harmony and narcissism in place of conflict.

you are a narcissist. That is the raison dêtre of the journal. Journal writing is a disease. But it's all right. It's very interesting. I don't know of any journal more interesting. I don't know of any woman writing so frankly.

the legends of friendship and love between man and man, woman and woman, or man and woman, lies this hideous narcissistic image of the single, all-sufficient self, the primitive generative force which fecundates itself, which in its irrepressible ebullience threw off a planetary system that forms the whole corpus of mythological worship and love. "In the beginning was the word and the word became flesh.

The sprinter unwisely indulges his arrogance against the marathon runner, and likewise, parents who encourage their children's narcissism do them no favours. It is best to accomplish something before becoming famous, because if the fame comes first, it often precludes accomplishment...You don't build a career by playing Carnegie Hall. You build a career and then Carnegie Hall will invite you to play.

She was one of those shallow people who rewrote their own history and believed in the absolute truth of their own version.

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

Ah, é uma praga, a vida que se exibe, uma verdadeira praga! Estamos numa época em que todos os ridículos filhos de Adão desejam evidenciar-se perante os outros, com todos os seus ditos espirituosos, esgares e tiques, toda a glória da fealdade auto-adorada, afirmando aos restantes - num transbordar de narcisismo que os outros interpretam como benevolência - 'Aqui estou para dar testemunho. Vim para lhes servir de exemplo'. Pobres espectros tontos!.

It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.

I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me's no joke.

Preachers love only their own voices.

The Bible is very clear that in the last days men will be "lovers of themselves" (2 Tim. 3:2).

Narcissistic leaders. The ultimate weapon of mass destruction is a state. When a state is taken over by a leader with the classic triad of narcissistic symptoms—grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy—the result can be imperial adventures with enormous human costs.

I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.

I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus, they suck the life right out of a party.

I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.