Narcissism Quotes

To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he over...

In April war was declared with Germany. Wilson and his cabinet—a cabinet that in its lack of distinc...

Since there was nothing at all I was certain of, since I needed to be provided at every instant with...

Do not make passion an argument for truth! - O you good-natured and even noble enthusiasts, I know y...

My main concern is with the world order

A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking tha...

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

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

Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borro...

I'm here to tell niggas it ain't all swell.There's Heaven then there's Hell niggasOne day your cruis...

Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.

I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having claw...

Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for it...

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

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesti...

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.

This scene expresses the basic situation of immaturity; lyricism is an attempt to face that situatio...

When he told F. of his disgust at the eyelid's movement, he must have been sixteen. When he decided ...

And think about the precise meaning of that term: a Narcissus is not proud. A proud man has disdain ...

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and a...

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

Love without sacrifice is like theft

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just dra...

That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism o...

The only crime is pride.

Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is s...

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

You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, eve...

Narcissistic cathexis of the child by the mother does not exclude emotional devotion. On the contrar...

I was trapped in an awful spiral of insecure narcissism

I am in love with you', I responded.He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh.'Of course you ar...

It is not accidental that the most unsympathetic characters in Austen's novels are those who are inc...

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. Yet they are the outcome of l...

When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordina...

I see the cultural messaging everywhere that says an ordinary life is a meaningless life. . . . I kn...

This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, ...

What if the preacher or father’s saying ‘Someone here’s lost and hopeless’ was tantamount to those S...

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to dis...