Narcissism Quotes

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

It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.

There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.

Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.

Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.

One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.

It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live.

Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.

Leftism and narcissism are almost synonymous

I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.

Then they both smiled the exact same smile. Narcissism times two. Oh, get a room already.

Because that's what narcissism is all about; looking in the mirror everyday and thinking 'Damn, I'd like to shag myself.'

I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.

Let me tell you what I just heard. Talk, talk, talk, I. Talk, talk, talk, I. Well, what about me?

When I'm in touch with the idea that there is a higher power and that there is, you know, other factors at work, it - it kind of quells my narcissism.

I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism.

I'm not a fan of the selfie. I think it's at the heart of the narcissism that social media brings into our lives.

People, no matter the economic class, find ways to feed their narcissism.

I just love being on stage and I love making music, and as far as - it's great for narcissism, because you have all those people screaming out your name.

The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

I imagine there's a level of narcissism that goes into thinking you're enough.

Narcissism as a virtue is very futuristic. Narcissism as a quality is where I think things are heading.

The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor.

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

Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and narcissism. Those are old schools too.

The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.

A narcissism shared by two.

As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.

I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent.

If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation.

No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.

Donald Trump has been called, by psychologists and clinical psychologists, over and over again, a narcissist with multiple sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies.

Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.

That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal.

The only crime is pride.

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.

If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.

Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory

I'm everything that you're not.

Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.

Kingdom of God will surely come upon someone if glory of man leaves him

It is not reputation, fame, success or religiosity that glorifies God, it's slavery.