Quotes About Narcissism

The Bible is very clear that in the last days men will be "lovers of themselves" (2 Tim. 3:2).

A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.

America, you just wanted change is all, a return To the kind of awe experiences after beholding a reign Of gold. A leader whose metallic narcissism is a reflection Of your own.

Goddamn, so this is what it means to have a leader You despise, the racists said when the president Was black and I'll be damned if I ain't saying it too. Is this a mandate for whiteness, virility, sovereignty, Stupidity, an idiot's threats & gangsta narcissisms threading Every shabby sentence his trumpet constructs?

In this regard, we are all a type of narcissist. None of us sees ourselves directly—our self-perceptions are filtered through acquired knowledge.

If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism.

There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.

I love to be the center of attention. My oversized ego craves it and needs it.

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

Ken didn't die for your benefit, you know. It's like everyone's a supporting actor in the flm of your life story. Of course. Isn't that how it works for everybody?

The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses.

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.

It's the martyrdom of Saint Me.

Everybody here thinks the whole story is about them. Definitely that goes for everybody in the world.

You are in love with yourself, aren't you?" He hmphed. "Someone has to be.

A person has to grow as a moral self in order to transcend this childlike subjectivity and primitive narcissism.

I wonder if during the course of these tragic notes, I have sufficiently stressed the sending quality of my striking, if perhaps somewhat brutal good looks". (Humbert in Lolita)

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

While being questioners and questers, we are often lost; we follow too many fads and fashions in our search. Too often we are left with a shallow and narcissistic inner life.

A noble, articulate, mixed-race liberal icon takes over the Presidency of the United States. Does he make the world a better place? No, he does not. A narcissistic sociopath with a thin skin and a bad dye job disgraces the Presidency of the United States. Does he make the world a worse place? No, he does not.