Quotes About Narcissism

the mother's narcissism is confirmed by how she seeks reassurance from the magic mirror on the wall early in the story, long before Snow White's beauty surpasses her own. There is no better tale for conveying how imperilled a teenage girl can feel with a narcissistic, competitive mother. And for Madeline, there were no friendly dwarves.

Someone ought to write a novel about me," said Lebedeva loftily. "I shouldn't care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can't abide a poor liar.

These are people who are eager to complain (or brag) about what's going on in their lives, but when the conversation shifts to you, they become uninterested and suddenly need to go.

The vain man does not think he is vain.

Com a psicologização do parecer abre-se o prazer narcísico de se metamorfosear aos olhos dos outros e de si mesmo, de "mudar de pele", de se tornar e de se sentir como uma outra, mudando de toalete.

Man is a true Narcissus; he delights to see his own image everywhere; and he spreads himself underneath the universe, like the amalgam behind the glass.

To imagine that we are solely, or even primarily, responsible for the successes and failures of our children is a narcissistic myth.

Addicts are selfish; it's always, ALWAYS about them.

The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.

There's no fool like a fool who thinks he's charming. On

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

This is not a slow movement of change. It's a shift in the consciousness of each of us. It is a collective shift. It involves facing grief and trauma and undoing our numbness and our narcissism and our indulgence that we have in this privileged western society.

Idolization of oneself is a crime. One is the prisoner of his once blindfolded complacency.

Everyone gets the impression that bodybuilders are narcissistic, and we look at ourselves in mirrors all the time. But that side of the sport doesn't appeal to me.

Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.

Trump lies when confronted with the truth, since any crack in his narcissism might spread like an Ebola of the soul, and he would deflate like one of Macy's balloons on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.