Quotes About Narcissism

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

the most important legacy of the 1960s has to be liberal guilt. Guilt over their inability to create the Great Society. Guilt over leaving children, blacks, and the rest of the Coalition of the Oppressed "behind." Guilt is among the most religious of emotions and has a way of rapidly devolving into a narcissistic God complex. Liberals were proud of how guilty they felt.

The two biggest causes of evil are two that we think are good, and that we try to encourage in our children: high self-esteem and moral idealism. Having high self-esteem doesn't directly cause violence, but when someone's high esteem is unrealistic or narcissistic, it is easily threatened by reality; in reaction to those threats, people—particularly young men—often lash out violently.

Because like all psychopaths he was grandiose, and convinced of his own personal magnetism, assumed worship on the part of others.

Love made us partners in narcissism

This was the problem of being a narcissist: No one appreciated you as much as you knew you deserved." Louis Piper, Prince of Darkness, Lucifer, The Morning Star.

The bigger we are, the harder we fall. Despite its hazards some keep on raising their narcissistic profile, wishing to be in the picture all the time, everywhere and at any cost. (Low profile)

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

The only thing he thinks of is himself, Stoner pointed out. In his deepest heart he does not regard anyone else as truly human; no one except himself. He is the center of his world. Everything and everyone else revolves around him.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals Himself.

Like all truly selfish people, Kliemann believed the minutiae of his life must be fascinating to all.

You didn't go on MySpace to communicate, you went there to show yourself off. It was like one big narcissistic playground.

Nihilism, narcissism, and hedonism are natural results of the chaotic existential subjectivism popularized by the Left. If the hallmark of the baby boomers was rebellion, the hallmark of my generation is jadedness. Nothing really matters—we're cosmically alone.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?'

One thing a narcissist doesn't like is to look in a mirror that is in any way genuinely reflective of what's on the other side of it.

I don't know why people do not read 'Mein Kampf' more regularly. It tells you first-hand about all the narcissism; you see that collapse in German culture. There is no chance that anyone could become a Nazi by reading that book.