Narcissism Quotes

Narcissism Quote of the day

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.

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

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

I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.

Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you

Love without sacrifice is like theft

Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.

Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.

To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey.

maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.

Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.

The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back.

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love.

The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance.

Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

My main concern is with the world order

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

[Donald] Trump's narcissism seems to be reflected in his need to be liked and treated positively.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

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.

What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.

There's something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility, like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

Narcissism really spreads its wings and soars on twitter. It's like watching a dragon hatch and learn to fly.

No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible self-esteem, along with boundless narcissism.

It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out of narcissism, but in her role as her own dear friend and advocate.

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.

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

I ended my Twitter account a week after I got on the show. I felt like, "This is not a good tool for me to keep my narcissism at bay," so I cut it off.

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.