Quotes About Narcissism

Adults raised in a narcissistic homes cling to the fantasy that they can somehow manipulate or control their parent/family of origin system to get the recognition and approval they require (that is, to get their needs met.) They had this fantasy as children, and they maintain it as adults. The reality, though, is that they had little control over their parent system as children and have little control over it now.

There's the appeal of the young thief who robs you, and climbs back down off your cloud. It's possible to love that boy, in a wistful and hopeless way. It's possible to love his greed and narcissism, to grant him that which is beyond your own capacities: heedlessness, cockiness, a self-devotion so pure it borders on the divine.

Persons are encouraged to tell a personal salvation story when they attend church. No longer does the salvation wrought by God in Jesus have corporate dimensions, no longer is it the salvation of the world. The way we tell the story of salvation is frankly narcissistic.

When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself.

It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it's inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.

I love narcissists-even more than they love themselves. You don't have to buoy them up. They are their own razzle-dazzle show and you are the blessed, favored with a front-row seat.

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

I just love being on stage and I love making music, and as far as - it's great for narcissism, because you have all those people screaming out your name.

The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

Self worship is different from self love.

I love talking about myself.

All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

Ryan's main takeaway: Do not humiliate Trump in public. Humiliating a narcissist risked real danger, a frantic lashing out if he felt threatened or criticized.

Ryan's main takeaway: Do not humiliate Trump in public. Humiliating a narcissist risked real danger, a frantic lashing out if he felt threatened or criticized. Ryan tested

All presidencies are audience driven, but Trump's central audience was often himself.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity

Built on a twisted form of extreme patriotism, it's fueled by racial hatred, mass propaganda, conspiracy theories, the demonizing of minority groups, and the cult of personality around a narcissistic leader. Under the influence of this ideology

Love makes people narcissists: this, too, Flannery now saw.

Being mythological does wonders for one's ego.

Según él, las almas ególatras como la de ella son incomprendidas e incluso odiadas por los fundamentalistas de la normalidad, que carecen de la fortaleza espiritual necesaria para poner en práctica el feroz narcisismo que deben poseer los humanos intelectualmente superiores.

Boris Johnson has only ever cared about Boris Johnson.