Quotes About A Narcissist

#1. Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

Leo Rosten

#2. I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

Andrew Sarris

#3. 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.

Alan Ball

#4. 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

#5. We just didn't get it. We were weakened and exhilarated at the same time. A paranoiac's nightmare! A narcissist's dream! We didn't know how to feel: flattered or raped. Maybe both. We were puzzling at breakneck speed.

Steve Toltz

#6. Every writer, without exception, is a masochist, a sadist, a peeping Tom, an exhibitionist, a narcissist, an 'injustice collector' and a depressed person constantly haunted by fears of unproductivity.

Edmund Bergler

#7. 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

#8. A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

Gore Vidal

#9. Maybe, the lesson we can all learn from the inner sadness of a Narcissist is to see through our own fabrications, our own illusions so that we can be set free to be real once more.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. I'm not a narcissist, but I definitely have gotten enough explosive narcissistic shrapnel from my father. I'm sort of wired that way, but I don't feel that I'm pathological, so all I can pull from is my own existence and my knowledge.

Marc Maron

#11. 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

#12. Getting married and becoming the father of young children has taught me that I am a narcissist. The good news is that I am a really great, really important, and really special narcissist.

Jim Gaffigan

#13. The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

Tucker Max

#14. My wife thinks I'm a narcissist, but I just think it's hilarious going on YouTube and seeing these covers. There are so many of them - literally hundreds! It's flattering.

Charles Kelley

#15. With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.

Edith Head

#16. What is most difficult is when the large part of me that is a narcissist grows weary and is overtaken by the self-loathing part that always lurks in the shadows waiting for an opportunity to shine.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#17. It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman. Just as a huge balloon can be deflated by a small needle, all it takes to make Islam explode is to ridicule its loony inventor and its brainless followers.

Ali Sina

#18. But love doesn't make a mean drunk not a mean drunk or a narcissist not a narcissist or a jackass not a jackass.

Cheryl Strayed

#19. I used to play a narcissistic conservative pundit. Now I'm just a narcissist.

Stephen Colbert

#20. 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.

Robbie Williams

#21. I like to think I'm not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.

Lisa O'Hare

#22. 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.

Jay Parini

#23. I've always been a narcissist.

Damian Lewis

#24. 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

#25. Begin to assess your own parenting. Acknowledging the painful reality that it is impossible to be a child of a narcissist and not be somewhat impaired narcissistically. Anyone raised this way has probably acquired a few traits of narcissism.

Karyl McBride

#26. Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate acts of alienation.

Orlan

#27. You're human. You'll screw up. Denying that is crazy. Forgiving yourself has all the benefits of self-esteem without making you a narcissist that's out of touch with reality.

David D. Burns

#28. In a narcissist's world you are not their one and only. You are an extension of that person and last place in their mind, while they secure back up narcissistic supply.

Shannon L. Alder

#29. A narcissist, even in pretty packaging, was still a self-serving bastard, the pretty face might fool for a moment, but the ugly truth deep down comes as a bigger blow, the narcissist wants to remain in control by keeping you confused, anxious, scared and apologetic.

V. Theia

#30. I was always too self-centered and irresponsible to have kids. I know that never stopped many others, but I am a narcissist with a conscience.

Debbie Kasper

#31. Yes, I am a narcissist. The best, too.

Terrell Owens

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

Mason Cooley

#33. Am I really just a narcissist,
Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque?

Rick Ross

#34. If a woman writes about herself, she's a narcissist. If a man does the
same, he's describing the human condition. But people seem to evaluate
your work based on how much they relate to it, so it's like, well, who's
the narcissist?

Emily Gould

#35. A narcissist never has your back.

Zari L. Ballard

#36. Fear was a solipsist, a narcissist, blind to everything except itself.

Salman Rushdie

#37. This was the problem of being a narcissist: No one appreciated you as much as you knew you deserved." Louis Piper, Prince of Darkness, Lucifer, The Morning Star.

Eric Nylund

#38. I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Ariel Gore

#39. I am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination; what a hassle that would be!

John Hodgman

#40. In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, but romance is shelved in fiction for a reason.

Sarah MacLean

#41. 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.

Christopher Lasch

#42. ... our favorite Sayings from Ryke Meadows.
My favorite: I fucking love you.
Willow's: I don't fucking understand Tumblr.
Lo's: Fuck you, you fucking fuck.
Lily's: Fucking fantastic.
Rose's: No means no. Better yet, fuck no.
Connor's: Connor Cobalt is a fucking narcissist.

Krista Ritchie

#43. A lot of artists are such narcissists.

Kristen Stewart

#44. As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

Nate Ruess

#45. The moral narcissist's extreme humility masked a dreadful pride. Ordinary people could accept that they had faults; the moral narcissist could not.

Larissa MacFarquhar

#46. 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

#47. The same goes for Edward Monkford. Yes, based on what you've told me, it seems Emma was the real narcissist, not him. But there's no doubting he's an extreme controller. What happens when a controller comes up against someone who's out of control? The combination could be explosive.

J.P. Delaney

#48. what might have looked like courage proved to be a deficit of common sense and an excess of self-importance, too strong a faith in his genius and superiority - not courage at all, but the rash actions of an ordinary narcissist incapable of imagining that he might fail.

Dean Koontz

#49. a fully flowered narcissist.

Russell Banks

#50. Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right stories that help us make sense of the world that we, on a very personal level, live in every day.

John Corey Whaley

#51. I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.

Anne Lamott

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

Alain Badiou

#53. I'm a failed narcissist.

Rabih Alameddine

#54. Love yourself' the social horde spouts from on high, mere moments later they frown at a bypassing narcissist.

Kevin Focke

#55. I prefer to think of myself as a devout Narcissist.
What does that mean?
If the sun is shining, I thank God. If it rains, I blame him.

Teresa Medeiros

#56. Every narcissist I have known does this. Always mysterious. Never a straight answer. Always handing you some meaningless vagary (or one that could mean many different things) as if it says something significant.

Kathy Krajco

#57. I have to pause the video while I corral the dogs in the other room. They howl in protest, and I tell them they are harshing my mellow and Yogi Beef Jerky's going to be pissed.
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Jen Lancaster

#58. Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

Thomas Szasz

#59. To sell out the kingdom of heaven for power is a devil's bargain. It is the bargain that the narcissist makes.

Alexander Lowen

#60. 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

#61. Women live their lives secretly waiting for their lives to become movies. We act like men are the ones shallow enough to desire an unending stream of beautiful women but really, if a charismatic narcissist beautiful bad boy man actually desires us, seems to choose us, we go to pieces.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#62. unscathed. As a victim, you might be taken to the point of not wanting to live anymore due to the loss of the soul mate illusion. Just know this, if you were to die, the Narcissist may have a slight feeling sorrow for a brief moment (although highly doubtful), but the Narcissist simply

Steve Craig