List Of 51 Quotes About Narcissists:
#1 Alex Morritt
“The ‘Selfie Stick’ has to top the list for what best defines narcissism in society today.”
#2 Marianne Williamson
”Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. ‘Know thyself’ is not a narcissistic pursuit.”
#3 Fathom
”When narcissism is viewed as good; good is viewed as narcissism.”
#4 Paulina Porizkova
”I’m definitely a narcissist, and TV is fabulous for narcissists.”
#5 Kurt Cobain
”I don’t care what you think unless it is about me.”
#6 Jordan Gavaris
”The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it’s always empathic. It’s always kind and compassionate. ”
#7 Emily Ratajkowski
”The truth is that both groups want to be noticed. Yet we view a man’s desire for attention as a natural instinct; with a woman, we label her a narcissist.”
#8 Fantastic Negrito
”I always call myself a recovering narcissist. I lived my life thinking everything was about me.”
#9 Lisa O’Hare
”I like to think I’m not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.”
#10 Robbie Williams
”I’ve been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.”
#11 George Gordon Noel Byron
“Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens…to stumble upon it.”
#12 Erich Fromm
“The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one’s narcissism.”
#13 Christopher Lasch
”In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God’s gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God’s gift to the collective.”
#14 Gore Vidal
”A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”
#15 Moby
“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.”
#16 Tucker Max
”No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.”
#17 Sam Vaknin
”The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.”
#18 David Brooks
”It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.”
#19 Mason Cooley
”Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.”
#20 Oscar Wilde
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
#21 Todd Solondz
”Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge. ”
#22 Voltaire
“It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.”
#23 Unknown
“Some narcissistic people end up believing their own lies.”
#24 Jeffrey Kluger
“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.”
#25 Sigmund Freud
”Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”
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#26 Jay Parini
”One thing a narcissist doesn’t like is to look in a mirror that is in any way genuinely reflective of what’s on the other side of it.”
#27 Emily Levine
”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.”
#28 Alan Ball
”I think it’s very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.”
#29 Sam Vaknin
“Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.”
#30 Daniel Goleman
“Though they are quick to put others down, unhealthy narcissists view themselves in absolutely positive terms.”
#31 Wayne Gerard Trotman
“The selfish are seldom secure.”
#32 Tracy Malone
“Narcissists Cheat. If they have been caught in other lies, what makes you believe their cheating lies? What is your die hard boundary on cheating? Once? Twice?”
#33 Oliver Markus Malloy
“I think future generations are going to look back at our time period and call this the Age of Narcissism.”
#34 Craig D. Lounsbrough
“A focus on self-preservation is a choice for self-destruction.”
#35 Benjamin Franklin
“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”
#36 Mason Cooley
”Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.”
#37 Dominic Riccitello
“You’re like a Pokemon and the only word you know is your name.”
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#38 W.H. Auden
”Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.”
#39 Shaun S. Lott
“If you are always looking in the mirror, you will never see past yourself”
#40 Bertrand Russell
”The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.”
#41 Dominic Riccitello
“I loved myself and since I loved me, I loved him because I realized he was good for me. A type of self worth, a type of narcissistic love.”
#42 Ellie Fox
“But that’s the thing about narcissists. They can try to fool you, with all their heart, but in the end, they’re just fooling themselves.”
#43 Abhijit Naskar
“No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such.”
#44 Mateo Sol
“When we meet and fall into the gravitational pull of a narcissist, we are entering a significant life lesson that involves learning how to create boundaries, self-respect, and resilience.”
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#45 Katya Zamolodchikova
”I love love. Every day of my life is Valentine’s Day. When you’re a pathological narcissist, you have to fall in love with yourself every day.”
#46 Steve Maraboli
”The greater our own level of narcissism, the more we detest it in others.”
#47 Donald W. Black
“Narcissistic personality disorder is named for Narcissus, from Greek mythology, who fell in love with his own reflection.”
#48 Karen Salmansohn
”I wish that people would stop destroying other people just because they were once destroyed.”
#49 Erich Fromm
”The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one.”
#50 Shannon L. Alder
“People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.”
#51 Tracy Malone
“Intuition – Once you have had a narcissist in your life, you must develop your intuition and learn to listen to it and act accordingly.”
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