Quotes About Narcissism

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

words exclaimed in an empty room are pure self-conscience, the narcissist's folly.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

People are far too wrapped up in their own lives to care about what's happening to other people. Even if it is a moment's hot gossip, it's only that - a moment.

It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything.

Design is all about desire, but strangely this desire seems almost subject-less today, or at least lack-less; that is, design seems to advance a new kind of narcissism, one that is all image and no interiority - an apotheosis of the subject that is also its disappearance. Poor little rich man: he is 'precluded from all fuure living and striving, developing and desiring' in the neo-Art Nouveau world of total design and Internet plenitude.

Narcissism is our religion. The selfie stuck is our cross, and we must carry it everywhere.

Narcissism is our religion. The selfie stick is our cross, and we must carry it everywhere.

We were just touring Europe, and I noticed that we'd go to all these beautiful places, and everyone's just taking a picture of themselves. I don't understand that at all. And I feel like that extends to music. I think we've lost the script a little bit.

I doubt anyone has ever accused comedians of solidarity before. It's hard to think of a less collegiate world than that of unabashed professional narcissists competing for attention; even when we reluctantly band together on panel shows, we're only trying to sell solo tours.

Men are selfish and don't think about anything else but them self." pg. 45

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

Insanity is a state of profound self-absorption.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

Love is not a contract between two narcissists.

I love a selfie in the mirror.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit.

That's because the banner behind which they march is not altruism. It is narcissism. But it took me a very long time fully to grasp this.

Materialism creates a world of narcissism in which the focus of life is solely on acquisition and consumption