Quotes About Narcissism

Y si: el mundo de la pantalla seguía siendo el gobierno de las muchedumbres. Y el narcisismo campeaba y la paranoia cundía porque todos estábamos mirándonos a todos. Y no había allí nadie que no pareciera atrapado en su cabeza

Having a wife and a girlfriend was not enough for Bill. The enjoyment and ego gratification of having other women, likely fueled by a persistent narcissism and a consuming need for contact and reassurance, gave rise to multiple affairs.

The recognition that what we have seen is the rise of an insecure narcissism – particularly among young people – rather than a rise in genuine self?esteem now seems widely accepted.

The evidence of our sensitivity to 'social evaluative threat', coupled with Twenge's evidence of long?term rises in anxiety and narcissism, suggests that we may – by the standards of any previous society – have become highly self?conscious, obsessed with how we appear to others, worried that we might come across as unattractive, boring, stupid or whatever, and constantly trying to manage the impressions we make.

Her own life had been a haze of privilege, narcissism, and impossibly extended adolescence, filled with mean, sardonic hipness and self-protection. Now she has been called.

A.A. is the only group I know that is willing and honest enough to just tell people up front, "You are damn selfish!" Or, "Until you get beyond your massive narcissism you are never going to grow up.

Unless and until we can enjoy this, so much of what passes for Christianity will amount to little more than well-disguised narcissism and self-referential politics. We see this phenomenon playing out in the de facto values of people who strongly identify as Christian. Often they are more racist, classist, and sexist than non-Christians. "Others can carry the burden and the pain of injustice, but not my group," they seem to say.

I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky!

What are you talking about? Narcissus demanded. I am amazing. Everyone knows this. Amazing at pure suck, Leo said. If I was as suck as you, I'd drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that.

Stop! Narcissus got to his feet. This is not right! This person is obviously not awesome, so he must be... He struggled for the right words. It had probably been a long time since he'd talked about anything other than himself. He must be tricking us. Apparently Narcissus wasn't completely stupid.

Yes! Narissus unslung his bow and grabbed an arrow from his dusty quiver. The first one who get that bronze, I will like you almost as much as I like me. I might even kiss you, right after I kiss my reflection! Oh my gods! the nymphs squealed.

in a sea of nihilism, passionate narcissism is the key determinant.

Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

Flattery works like a drug.

egocentric melodrama.

Do you accept reality, or shall the narcissistic individual have the absolute right to live in their own permanent fantasy world, and compel everyone else to go along with their fantasy? When the lunatic in a mental asylum says he is Napoleon, we must bellow, 'Vive l'Empereur!' and join his Grande Armée, and all march to Waterloo to meet our fate.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

The future promises us all our very own Truman Shows and when every man and woman is a star the spectacle becomes auto- cannibalizing; the audience forced to watch itself due to lack of spectators

Virtue is never its own reward for the narcisisst

Marxism was simply Marxism until Freud was invited into its bed. It then became fucking Marxism! It moved the focus from the factory floor to the bedroom, from necessity to narcissism to the abandonment of the toilers and the move towards todays obsession with toiletry freedom.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

We are doing kids a tremendous disservice when we lead them to believe that just because they are special to us (their parents), the rest of the world will treat them this way. The best preparation they can receive is not narcissism or even self-esteem, but your love and support--and your message to them that hard work and perseverance are more important to success than self-belief.