Narcissism Quotes

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

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

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

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.

I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I get into it that I realize what I've thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success.

It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but then so can the tango - particularly if you're dancing alone.

The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back.

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

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

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

When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.

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

Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.

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

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

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

What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

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.

Beauty is a dangerous word. Beauty becomes slightly indulgent for me. It's a snatched kind of moment for me because I'm entitled to a nice day in my life but beauty creeps close to narcissism, which I really dislike, particularly in human beings who were born with good looks, who cash in on it. It's a bit of a dodgy word for me. I look at it with caution. It can be a bit like walking into quicksand; it can get you in to all kinds of trouble.

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.

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.

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

A narcissism shared by two.

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

I'm not the guy in the dress with the blood and the unrequited gay whatever - which, according to my psychiatrist, my gayness is a form of narcissism but you'll have to ask him about that.

In early psychoanalytic thought, narcissism was - and still, of course, is - self-love. The early psychoanalysts used to talk of libido directed at the self. That now feels a little quaint, that kind of language. But it does include the most fierce and self-displaying form of one's individual self. And in this way, it can be dangerous. When you look at Donald Trump, you can really see someone who's destructive to any form of life enhancement in virtually every area. And if that's what Fromm means by malignant narcissism, then it definitely applies.

Leftism and narcissism are almost synonymous

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.

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

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