Narcissism Quotations

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

There's a degree of narcissism involved in anything in show business. I mean, you can't do it without a healthy ego. Why would you want anybody to listen to you?

The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience.

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

Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.

Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

Leftism and narcissism are almost synonymous

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

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

more of what I know about me. I think you live more and become more familiar with the workings of your own mind -- the darkness in it, the narcissism -- and the desperate attempts the ego makes to cover that up.

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.'

Narcissism has existed for a long time; social media is just a new outlet to express it. Anybody who is going to record themselves and put that on the Internet, hoping people will watch, there is a degree to which that exists, yeah. I don't know if I would call myself a narcissist. I don't necessarily identify with that label.

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.

The paradox about narcissism is that we all have this streak of egotism. Eighty percent of people think they're better than average.

'Empire of Self' is a loving portrait of a very difficult man. Jay Parini, himself a gifted novelist, poet and biographer, has gone very deep into the 'black energy' of Gore Vidal's relentless narcissism and megalomania. Parini envisions an epic battle between Vidal's angelic and demonic sides, yet there's very little of the angel in Vidal.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

They think the world revolves around them and they are not considerate. They are not kind. They are trapped in a cage of narcissism we have built for them.

America has been knocked-up with democracys mutant love child. She has finally borne the demonic spawn of greed, narcissism and civilian indifference. (Congrats on a second term Mr Bush).

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?

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

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.

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

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

The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back.

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

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

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.

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Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.

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.

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.

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

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

What will the world be quite overturned when you die?