Quotes About Narcissism

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look...like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

All you ever think about it yourself! The reason you're depressed is because you're so self obsessed.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

Vain people can't focus beyond the reflection of themselves in a vanity.

There is a fine line between loving yourself and being an egotistical, self-centered individual.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself

Now we've got an entire generation of fucked-up narcissists 'cause their mamas told them they're special.

Your client is that common animal, the Classic Narcissist. He doesn't care if he's making your life miserable, cutting into your profit margin, or getting you in trouble with the boss. He wants what he wants—and he wants it now, now, now.

We're all adults here—we all know the score. We know what they do to people like me and my mom, to paradoxical hybrids of arrogant narcissism and vulnerable naïveté. We know what happens to unreconstructed surrealist militants. Tortured. Marked for assassination. Imagine what awaits me out there.

And I still believe that there are two basic kinds of people--people who cultivate the narcissistic delusion of being watched at all times through the viewfinder of a camera, and people who cultivate the paranoid delusion of being watched at all times through the high-powered optics of a sniper's rifle, and I think I fall--and have always fallen--into this latter category.

Comte's positivism and "stages of development" theory and the Hegel-Marx historicism are kindred and lay the foundation for modern progressivism. They all presume to know and establish the final stage of human development (even if the final stage is in a state of constant remaking), denounce organized religion and timeless truths, and worship the narcissism of their own moral nihilism

The world does not need a 'gay Elvis', for the original, with his black leather suit, pomaded pompadour, come-fuck-me eyes and radiant narcissism, was quite queer enough

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening!

Homer say, Pretty gal go a river and see herself in water. Pretty gal drown when she go down to kiss herself.

cares nothing for others

in many situations where the narcissist would be clueless, unresponsive, and perhaps annoyed, the sociopath will be responsive, often charmingly so, creating a better disguise than the narcissist has.

antisocial ones—chronic lying, a lack of empathy, and a pattern of placing a power agenda ahead of the good of the people.

Freud's theoretical differences with Adler and Jung ended in bitterness. The three parted company and each went his own way. At that point, Freud began to use the concept of introversion as a negative, implying a turning inward away from the world, in his writings about narcissism. This shifted the evolution of the concept of introversion away from healthy and toward the unhealthy, a misconception that remains to this day.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.