Narcissists With Quotes

#1. Some people seem to have a black belt in selfishness ... ninja narcissists with no regard to how they impact those around them ... but at the same time, a master at the art of playing victim.

Steve Maraboli

#2. But I had learned a lesson about the overwhelming need of narcissists to be in the right, and to punish those by whom they feel slighted.

Robert Gottlieb

#3. People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

Yoko Ono

#4. Narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet.

Anna C. Salter

#5. What narcissists and sociopaths will do is construct a false apology, in order to pacify dissent and further evade detection. This is usually delivered snidely, with a subtext of blaming the victim for their own actions, whatever they are.

William Lockhart

#6. Love is not a contract between two narcissists.

Alain Badiou

#7. Relationships with narcissists are held in place by hope
of a "someday better," with little evidence to support it will ever arrive.

Ramani Durvasula

#8. The paradox is that no love can prove so intense
as the love of two narcissists for each other.

Norman Mailer

#9. Sociopaths have no conscience. Narcissists have no empathy. Neither one thinks other people are real. Narcissists think other people are just ego food, tools or extensions of themselves.

Koren Zailckas

#10. Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.

James P. Gorman

#11. I love narcissists-even more than they love themselves. You don't have to buoy them up. They are their own razzle-dazzle show and you are the blessed, favored with a front-row seat.

Patricia Marx

#12. Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

Jaron Lanier

#13. Muhammad was a narcissist and Muslims, by having entered into his bubble universe have become narcissists by extension. More precisely, they are reverse narcissists. A commonly used term for reverse narcissist is co-dependent.

Ali Sina

#14. God doesn't ordain stupidity.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

David Brooks

#16. Criminally negligent narcissists, child endangerers, child abusers, religious maniacs, and kleptoparasites, meaning they stole from their own descendants. These things happen.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#17. Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.

Jean Lorrain

#18. Now we've got an entire generation of fucked-up narcissists 'cause their mamas told them they're special.

Mark Gimenez

#19. 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

#20. Narcissism is very much a "disorder of superficiality." Given that the entire world is trending towards greater superficiality in all endeavors - work, school, parenting, and love - the narcissists' propensity toward superficiality no longer seems that unusual.

Ramani Durvasula

#21. A lot of artists are such narcissists.

Kristen Stewart

#22. Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#23. 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

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

Jonathan Franzen

#25. Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#26. I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

William Hurt

#27. To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.

Geoff Stults

#29. Nobody enjoys being on display," said Isabel. But then she thought: Some do, and so she added, "Except actors. And narcissists.

Alexander McCall Smith

#30. There's nothing more narcissistic than being sure that you are built in the image of an all-powerful Creator-God, and that same God answers your prayers, knows your name, and has a personal relationship with you.

David G. McAfee

#31. You will never get the truth out of a Narcissist. The closest you will ever come is a story that either makes them the victim or the hero, but never the villain.

Shannon L. Alder

#32. Narcissists are neither carefree nor innocent. They have learned to play the power game, to seduce and to manipulate. They are always thinking about how people see and respond to them. And they must stay in control because loss of control evokes their fear of insanity.

Alexander Lowen

#33. Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

Cornel West

#34. True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#35. Ours has become a world where a tragic number of people are more fascinated by materialism and the lives of distant narcissists than by their own life experience.

Brendon Burchard

#36. It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.

Kurt Cobain

#37. The most uninteresting thing in the world is watching narcissists fuck each other.

Jarett Kobek

#38. In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense

Munia Khan

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

Sam Vaknin

#40. Learning to spot narcissists and deal with their destructive behavior can save you the world of hurt that awaits anyone who mistakes the near enemy for a friend.

Martha Beck

#41. Narcissists commonly cut people off and out of their lives due to their shallow emotional style of seeing others as either good or bad.

Karyl McBride

#42. Love without sacrifice is like theft

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#43. Actors are all narcissists.

Gillian Jacobs

#44. Truthfully, there're only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy. Most won't care if you're happy, only if you're miserable like they are. They eat that shit up.

Crystal Woods

#45. Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

Nicholas Kristof

#46. As a pastor, I recognize that in theological terms, narcissists want to be the center of attention, like a god, and have people worship them by paying attention to them, buying the products they promote, and emulating their behavior.

Mark Driscoll

#47. I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world.

Michael Showalter

#48. so often victims end up unnecessarily prolonging their abuse because they buy into the notion that their abuser must be coming from a wounded place and that only patient love and tolerance (and lots of misguided therapy) will help them heal.

George K. Simon

#49. The world is so rife with narcissists that none of them take enough notice of me.

Eleanor Bron

#50. It's the narcissist's way of maintaining control of the twisted situation he conducted in his environment.
Narcissists thrive when attempting to make people crazy. It's called psychological warfare.

V. Theia