Quotes About Narcissism

every being loves ther own self more than anything else, for this is only natural. We love our children and our wealth only because we think of them as parts of ourselves, as belonging to us. Thus men never love their children, the homes or their gold as much as they do their own bodies, their selves. For these are never entirely identified with the self, but only perceived as belonging to the self.

You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.

What I'm trying to achieve with my surgery is my own personal satisfaction. It's narcissism.

Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.

Les gens, continue Lalix, ils se croient des petites merveilles, tout ce qu'ils font, tout ce qu'ils sont. Ils s'attribuent une importance... Alors, s'il fallait, par-dessus, encaisser le récit de leurs rêves, on n'en finirait plus.

And secondly, reducing the diversity between people didn't result in harmony within. The narcissism of small differences ensured this.

All the shiny surfaces reflected the other shiny surfaces, as though the house was in love with itself and couldn't stop winking and preening.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Basically, man, I just love myself.

I play a man who is obsessed with his own beauty, so it's perfect casting.

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic

It's all about you, isn't it?

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

The Narcissism Epidemic, Twenge and Campbell