Quotes About Narcissism

If you go through my Instagram feed, it's like a flip book of me thinking I'm way more attractive than I am. It's nauseating.

I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world.

But then, as I read somewhere recently, narcissists always hurt the one they love the most.

An egoist is someone who doesn't think about me...

I don't care what you think as long as it's about me.

Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.

L'amour le plus fort est celui qui n'est pas partagé. J'aurais préféré ne jamais le savoir, mais telle est la vérité: il n'y a rien de pire que d'aimer quelqu'un qui ne vous aime pas - et en même temps c'est la chose la plus belle qui me soit jamais arrivée. Aimer quelqu'un qui vous aime aussi, c'est du narcissisme. Aimer quelqu'un qui ne vous aime pas,ça, c'est de l'amour.

Sa iubesti pe cineva care te iubeste este narcisism. Sa iubesti pe cineva care nu te iubeste, asta da, e dragoste.

El amor más intenso es el amor no correspondido. Hubiera preferido no saberlo nunca, pero ésta es la verdad: no hay nada peor que amar a alguien que no te ama, y al mismo tiempo se trata de lo más hermoso que jamás me ha ocurrido. Amar a alguien que también te ama es narcisismo. Amar a alguien que no te ama, eso es amor.

En las redes sociales, un resultado elevado de narcisismo estaría correlacionado con una actividad intensa en el reclutamiento de gran número de «amigos» o de seguidores para dar una imagen grandiosa de uno mismo, sin tratar de desarrollar relaciones personales.

Materialism and self-centeredness are the great vices of our age.

I know idealism is not playing on the radio right now, you don't see it on TV, irony is on heavy rotation, the knowingness, the smirk, the tired joke. I've tried them all out but I'll tell you this ... idealism is under siege beset by materialism, narcissism and all the other isms of indifference. Baggism, Shaggism. Raggism. Notism, graduationism, chismism, I don't know. Where's John Lennon when you need him?

A degree of narcissism is necessary, I suppose, to look in the pool to see your reflection. (Bono)

Oh what a wanker I am the greatest wanker of 'em all!

if you are deluded and narcissistic enough to believe you should obey your gut rather than looking coldly at the facts

As with most people who are well raised, well educated, and financially secure, Dr. Tokai only thought of himself.

All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control.

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

Narcissism is not about self love. It's a clinical trait that belies a deep sense of emptiness, low self-esteem, emotional detachment, self-loathing, extreme problems with intimacy.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

Too much self-esteem, thought Simon: the real curse of our age.

My experience as a police inspector has taught me that many people are able to regard themselves with inordinate fondness, no matter what heinous crimes they have committed. They care only about how they look to others, and whether they can get away with it.

To live true to the vision of the master, we must be as selfish, narcissistic, manipulative, driven, and creative in getting what we want as we can be, not just in our important business actions, but where it really counts: in our hearts.

Well more than two thirds of the press releases from Douglas MacArthur's command reference only one person – himself.