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Quotes About Narcissism

He had ceased to be interested in anyone but himself.
~ Iris Murdoch
Politics shouldn't be what it has exclusively become: a pastime for bored, rich, narcissistic sociopaths, useless for any other kind of employment and hardwired only to syphon off the resources of a community into the pockets of their elite sponsors.
~ Irvine Welsh
I only care about me and about why I don't care about anybody else.
~ Irvine Welsh
Sólo se reía de buena gana con Marcelo, de sus patas cortas y su cara de lémur; ese animal se daba el lujo de ser narcisista y gruñón, como un marido.
~ Isabel Allende
male vanity goes deeper and is costlier.
~ Isabel Allende
Is there anything more vain than an autobiography?
~ Isabel Allende
The Trumps have spent exactly zero percent of their lives caring about anyone other than themselves.
~ Joy Reid
A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
~ Jean Anouilh
A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.
~ La Rochefoucauld
There ain't nothing but one thing wrong with every one of us, and that's selfishness.
~ Will Rogers
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
My mother was a terrible narcissist and I could well have turned out like her.
~ Lady Colin Campbell
I'm definitely a narcissist, and TV is fabulous for narcissists.
~ Paulina Porizkova
Tweeting - let's be honest: it's like I'm the center of the universe; it's all about me. Everybody is listening to my every thought, and my current thought at this very moment is... it's ridiculous.
~ Ben Howland
Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.
~ Craig Brown
I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.
~ Matthew Perry
Talking to him was like engaging in a fistfight with someone gazing at himself in a mirror while punching you.
~ Susan Orlean
Being a founder is about being so driven to distraction by the world that you want to put something new in it. It's an act of creation, of irreverence, of defiance, of hope, and arguably one of narcissism.
~ Andy Dunn
You can't avoid being an egotistical person and ultimately somewhat narcissistic. You can try to curb it by recognizing that behavior. But at the same time, your repetitive behavior has its own psychology, and it's impossible to get out of that.
~ Jeff Baena
As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.
~ Nate Ruess
To Trump, being a billionaire means plating everything in gold and slapping his name everywhere in huge block letters. It means that he gets to say whatever pops into his head and never has to say he is sorry.
~ Jacob Weisberg
I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked - I ask, 'I'm not an actual narcissist, am I?' The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria.
~ Rob Lowe
I would like to see sexiness sort of embodied in people's real bodies, as opposed to those bodies that are just full of narcissism.
~ David Harbour
You do get a bit paranoid that you're becoming a sort of narcissist, an artistic solipsist when you're doing stand-up.
~ Tim Minchin