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Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge. -- Todd Solondz
Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity. -- Diana Vreeland
All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism. -- Geoff Mulgan
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. -- Sigmund Freud
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. -- Jane Fonda
Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity alike. -- David Augsburger
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history. -- Allen Tate
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. -- James Woods
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Narcissism is, indeed, the new world order. -- Ramani Durvasula
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. -- Jonathan Franzen
I don't care what you think unless it is about me. -- Kurt Cobain
Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Then they both smiled the exact same smile. Narcissism times two. Oh, get a room already. -- Devon Monk
Narcissism really spreads its wings and soars on twitter. It's like watching a dragon hatch and learn to fly. -- Dave Anthony
If you're a nobody, just imagine a lot of celebrities are in love with you. Narcissism is the best cure for attention deficit disorder. -- Bauvard
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. -- Claude Cahun
There's Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there's Feminism and Hedonism, and there's Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system that means the most to me. -- Tony Hoagland
When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose. -- Brene Brown
Narcissism: It's Primal. No Productive Control of Energy: Seeks constant fresh sources of stimulation and is highly energized running from human-object to human-object, activity to activity, but does not accomplish anything and never evolves or learns from activities and the many people recycled through. -- Lynna Kivela
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. -- Wilson Mizner
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. -- Voltaire
Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love. -- Mason Cooley
No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog. -- Tucker Max
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit. -- Marianne Williamson
I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism. -- Phil Klay
I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love. -- Emily Levine
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. -- Andre Dubus III
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. -- Erich Fromm
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. -- Malcolm Gladwell
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. -- Moby
L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card. -- Geoff Mulgan
I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it. It is actually drearier than self-love; it is unrequited self-love. -- Emily Levine
It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing. -- Russell Brand
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior? -- Dennis Prager
We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms. -- Christopher Lasch
Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me. -- Jason Reitman
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. -- Marianne Faithfull
Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise of writing law out of New Deal nostalgia is a form of national narcissism. Call it New Deal narcissism. -- Amity Shlaes
Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God. -- Saint Augustine
Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine. -- Jenny McCarthy
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
This may sound a little harsh, but I don't care about my career. Really, I don't like actors who are always planning what they're going to do next or always worrying about doing something that will go against the image they've created. To me, that's almost like an attack of narcissism. -- Antonio Banderas
There's a reason narcissists don't learn from mistakes and that's because they never get past the first step which is admitting that they made one. It's always an assistant's fault, an adviser's fault, a lawyer's fault. Ask them to account for a mistake any other way and they'll say, 'what mistake? -- Jeffrey Kluger
I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate, and becoming a national public figure. All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want. -- John Edwards
I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, 'A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.' -- Ayelet Waldman
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead. -- Carl Jung
Nothing provides the antidote to narcissism, or the environment for the healthy raising of children, or the way for people to take care of one another, as does the marriage of a man and a woman. And while most divorces are terribly sad, divorce itself no more undermines the institution of marriage than car crashes undermine the institution of driving. -- Dennis Prager
Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these notes intensify the inner life, which, left unexpressed, slips through your fingers. If only I could find a better kind of journal, humbler, one that would preserve the same thoughts, the same flesh of life, which is worth saving. -- Anna Kamienska
The only crime is pride. -- Sophocles
Love without sacrifice is like theft -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Criticism is the fountainhead of control. -- Susan Forward
I'm too ugly to be a narcissist. -- Mitch Albom from "Tuesdays with Morrie"
My main concern is with the world order -- George Soros
The high road is littered with pot shots. -- Debra Crown
Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre -- Robert Hughes
Social Media is a shared delusion of grandeur. -- Michael P. Naughton
We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves. -- Christopher Lasch
I was trapped in an awful spiral of insecure narcissism -- Amy Poehler
This conversation with myself has an overwhelming aroma of narcissism. -- Tawny Lara
Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For the most part people are not curious except about themselves. -- John Steinbeck
Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning. -- Criss Jami
One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much. -- Marty Rubin
When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players? -- Criss Jami
I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company. -- Alexandra Bracken
I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close. -- Gena Showalter
When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple. -- Shannon L. Alder
I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way. -- Criss Jami
To be an end in myself is to bring an end to myself. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied. -- Graham Greene
The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem. -- George F. Will
Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed. -- Hanif Kureishi
Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others. -- Jean Lorrain
If pride really went before a fall, then, Lucifer is the inventor of pride. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The greater our own level of narcissism, the more we detest it in others. -- Steve Maraboli
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism -- Tullian Tchividjian
But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern -- Dean Koontz
The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience. -- Criss Jami
How starved you must have been that my heart became a meal for your ego. -- Amanda Torroni
The 'Selfie Stick' has to top the list for what best defines narcissism in society today. -- Alex Morritt
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The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy). -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Out of all the addictions in the world, Attention is slowly but surely becoming one of the most dangerous. -- Saahil Prem
The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead. -- Criss Jami
true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness. -- Stefan Molyneux
Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence. -- Sam Vaknin
One can perceive me only with his limited vision. A droplet can't perceive the extent of the ocean. ~ Aarush Kashyap -- Kirtida Gautam
Let me tell you what I just heard. Talk, talk, talk, I. Talk, talk, talk, I. Well, what about me? -- Gena Showalter
We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in. -- Criss Jami
Among all these stupid pretty women she had such a sense of power, of knowing almost everything better than they did. -- Edith Wharton
Relationships with narcissists are held in place by hopeof a someday better,with little evidence to support it will ever arrive. -- Ramani Durvasula
You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles. -- Criss Jami
Hypocrissist: A narcissist who has their head so far up their ass they can't hear the hypocrisy coming out of their mouth. -- Joel McDonald
The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic. -- Rod Serling
There was nothing more unattractive than narcissism, she thought: nothing could transform beauty into a cloying, unattractive quality than that self-conscious appreciation of self. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa). -- Criss Jami
Even though friends say they are interested in your life, they never really want to talk about you as much as you want them to. (68) -- Charise Mericle Harper
I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction? -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
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If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role model you need. -- Arinn Dembo
Kill me if I ever look that Bad Dude, what are you saying? On the TV? That is you, dude. From like five years ago. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Arrogance is an illusion of superiority one perpetrates upon their self. Some may ultimately find their way through the illusion, but only after many losses. -- Debra Crown
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)] -- Robert Hughes
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. -- Criss Jami
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. -- Sylvia Plath
Cuando quiero intensamente a una persona, no digo nunca su nombre a nadie. Es como ceder una parte de ella. He aprendido a amar en secreto. -- Oscar Wilde
(I think this will be the title of my new book)I Learned Everything I Needed to Know About Narcissistic Personality Disorder on My Last Date -- Brenda Priddy
Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow. -- Criss Jami
Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better. -- Criss Jami
The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict. -- Sam Vaknin
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. -- Criss Jami
Having invented himself, the narcissist sees no problem in recasting that which he had designed in the first place. The narcissist is his own repeated Creator - hence his grandiosity. -- Sam Vaknin
A sociopath is one who sees others as impersonal objects to be manipulated to fulfill their own narcissistic needs without any regard for the hurtful consequences of their selfish actions. -- R. Alan Woods
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. -- Criss Jami
When sex and money are fused in the service of exploitation, the two create an even more destructive form of rage of a type often exhibited in narcissistic and potentially psychopathic populations. -- Debra L. Kaplan

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