Quotes About Narcissism

Don't you think it was a little selfish to travel around the world looking for yourself?" She always answered, "You know what? I actually think it would have been a little selfish to spend the rest of my life in narcissistic, depressive, anxious misery. That person adds nothing to society, adds nothing to any room that she enters, adds nothing to the people whom she touches. The best community service I can possibly offer the world is to stay healthy and sane.

The egoist loves himself without rivals.

In case you're wondering, vanity never ends.

Why is it that really beautiful people think everyone else in the world exists merely for their amusement?

Perhaps it was no accident that it was a Viennese, Sigmund Freud, who was to come up with the notion of the narcissism of small differences. As he wrote in Civilization and Its Discontents, 'it is precisely communities with adjoining territories, and related to each other in other ways as well, who are engaged in constant feuds and in ridiculing each other

Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.

Loving yourself is holding yourself accountable to be the best you can be in your life. Narcissistic love has nothing to do with accountability.

The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the supreme delusion of a runaway ego looking out for "number one." In fact, just the opposite is true.

There's nothing more unattractive than a vain man

My narcissism could have turned my eulogy Into Law & Order courtroom testimony. I could've said, I felt safe almost half the time With Mom. She protected me against cruelty Three days a week.

Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life.

The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.

He only cared about his own poetry.

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

Everyone, she understood, was mainly and mostly interested in themselves.

Liberalism, Lasch declared, is "politically and intellectually bankrupt"; in its place, postindustrial America has created a postmodern "culture of narcissism,… which in its decadence has carried the logic of individualism to the extreme.

Men that are great lovers of themselves, waste the public.

People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.

I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.

Left to my own devices, I'd probably Google myself all day.

I search my name on Tumblr more than I Google myself, and I Google myself every day.

The child with an embellished sense of self will see himself as superior to others—as God's gift to the world and deserving of whatever he wants. Studies show this inflated sense of self-esteem is rampant among the young today.

In my book entitled 'L'eau et les reves, I collected many other literary images in which the pond is the very eye of the landscape, the reflection in water the first view that the universe has of itself, and the heightened beauty of a reflected landscape presented as the very root of cosmic narcissism.

I started wondering why it is that people line up behind charismatic leaders. It's easy to understand the emergence of a figure who's narcissistic and compelling. But why people follow this person mindlessly - that was the hard question to me.