Quotes About Narcissism

Ever the blameless narcissist, Trump always insists that the buck stops wherever convenient - for him, personally.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

But this is completely perverse, namely, to please and enjoy oneself in one's works, and to worship oneself as an idol.

Bad writing is almost always a love poem addressed by the self to the self. The person who will admire it first and last and most is the writer herself.

The narcissism of small differences leads to the most boring kind of conformity.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least until you're old enough to go to school.

I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.

I like hearing myself talk.  It is one of my greatest pleasures.  I often have long conversations all by myself

In literature mere egotism is delightful.

I like hearing myself talk.  It is one of my greatest pleasures.  I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

He grew more and more enamoured of his own beauty, more and more interested in the corruption of his own soul.

Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you—well, of course you have an intellectual expression, and all that. But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself an exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.

Though they are quick to put others down, unhealthy narcissists view themselves in absolutely positive terms.

self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion.

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I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.

I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.

A crude Darwinism? A sadistic fancy? An irresponsible egoism? A megalomania?

V is for vanity, every time I look at me I turn myself on, yeah

During my many years of interviewing murderous psychopaths, I have noted all of them have over-inflated egos.