Top 100 Quotes About Narcissism
#1. It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.
Rachel Weisz
#2. Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd
Mark Rippetoe
#3. Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?
Alexander McCall Smith
#5. I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that.
Joel Kinnaman
#6. 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
#7. My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.
Jay Baruchel
#8. Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.
Henry Cloud
#9. Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.
Elia Kazan
#10. If I had it to do all over again ... I wouldn't change a thing.' ... the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation.
Steve Erickson
#11. 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
#12. I have a very simple question to people ... who seem to suffer from excessive narcissism: please name three other persons who are smarter and more capable than you, in the field you work in. (In most cases they are utterly unable to answer that question honestly.
Ingo Molnar
#13. Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.
Marianne Williamson
#14. Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right.
Jonathan Tropper
#15. 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
#16. A hit man's character is defined above all by narcissism, that complex mix of egotism and self-hatred.
Suketu Mehta
#17. 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
#18. There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.
Bernard Goldberg
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Daring to think that the rules do not apply is the mark of a visionary. It's also a symptom of narcissism. -
Ariel Levy
#22. It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live.
Bryan Fuller
#24. Nihilism, narcissism, and hedonism are natural results of the chaotic existential subjectivism popularized by the Left. If the hallmark of the baby boomers was rebellion, the hallmark of my generation is jadedness. Nothing really matters - we're cosmically alone.
Ben Shapiro
#25. I am often struck by the dangerous narcissism fostered by spiritual rhetoric that pays so much attention to individual self-improvement and so little to the practice of love within the context of community.
Bell Hooks
#26. The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.
Bill Vaughan
#27. 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
#28. I was trapped in an awful spiral of insecure narcissism
Amy Poehler
#29. I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway, and I would disapprove of it.
Colm Toibin
#30. Because that's what narcissism is all about; looking in the mirror everyday and thinking 'Damn, I'd like to shag myself.'
Eddie Izzard
#31. 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.'
John Ortberg
#32. 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
#33. Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere - much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.
Sebastian Horsley
#34. To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism
Tullian Tchividjian
#35. The greater our own level of narcissism, the more we detest it in others.
Steve Maraboli
#36. When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#37. 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
#38. I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#39. The narcissism of student movements, new Left ideologues and the popular culture of the '60s generation invited a conservative backlash.
Tony Judt
#40. The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.
Richard Louv
#41. Counterintuitively, self-hatred is one of the leading symptoms of clinical narcissism. Only by telling yourself and the world how much you hate yourself can you receive the reliable shower of praise and admiration in response that you feel you deserve ...
Stephen Fry
#42. And I can't help but wonder, did George want to kill me too? I have no doubt that the only thing that stopped him was narcissism-to kill me was also to kill some part of himself, which might also explain why Nate and Ashley survived.
A.M. Homes
#43. In Dune and Dune Messiah, he [Frank Herbert] was cautioning against pride and overconfidence, that form of narcissism described in Greek tragedies that invariably led to the great fall.
Brian Herbert
#44. 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
#45. There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?'
Susan Sullivan
#46. Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.
John Oliver
#47. I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.
Kelly Clarkson
#48. This is hardly a South African problem, of course. We are confronting nothing less than a global system of brutal misogyny. Too many men across the world see too many women as repositories of their rage, frustration, narcissism or simply their will to enact violence.
Dave Zirin
#49. What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance.
Tom Ford
#50. 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.
Jim Gaffigan
#51. If we don't understand bad writing, we can't understand good writing. Bad writing is characterized by obfuscation, showboating, narcissism, lack of a moral core, and style over substance. Good writing is exactly the opposite. Bad writing draws attention to the writer himself.
Anis Shivani
#52. ...the age of surveillance is only a symptom of the new hyper-narcissism that has infected our collective reality tunnels. We invite the surveillance cameras into our homes because they are proof that someone is paying attention to us.
Moxie Mezcal
#53. One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.
Bill Ayers
#54. Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.
Ayelet Waldman
#55. I find that kind of "look at me" narcissism terribly inconsiderate. If you need attention that badly, set yourself on fire.
Joan Rivers
#56. 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
#57. I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.
Phil Klay
#58. If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism.
Terry Eagleton
#59. American women are evolving backward
becoming more focused on their looks than ever. Feminism has been defeated by narcissism.
Maureen Dowd
#61. Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
Bill Ayers
#62. The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.
Malcolm Gladwell
#63. People, no matter the economic class, find ways to feed their narcissism.
Lynne Tillman
#64. 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.
Andrew Cohen
#65. It was, she said, the way the book had revealed an inherent narcissism in its recipients.
Jon Ronson
#66. I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.
Frank O'Hara
#67. Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#68. I love her and hate her at the same time. I even love the parts of her that I hate, her vitality and her colour, her disruption and disorder, her humour and her despair, her conceit and her narcissism, her everything that isn't me.
Poppy Adams
#69. Narcissism really spreads its wings and soars on twitter. It's like watching a dragon hatch and learn to fly.
Dave Anthony
#70. 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
#71. Maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.
Velda Johnston
#72. I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.
Derrick Jensen
#73. Most love, I've observed, is narcissism at its finest and most cunning. Love is always about how you feel but not necessarily how the other person feels. The notion that simply because you love someone they should be willing to love you in return.
Kat Savage
#74. Vanity and narcissism - the compulsive need to be admired and praised - undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.
Rollo May
#75. In the case of an artistic practice that performs female narcissism..., the threat lies in its making superfluous the arbiters of artistic value. Already presuming her desirability, [she] obviates the modern critical system; loving herself, she needs no confirmation of her artistic 'value
Amelia Jones
#76. 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
#77. I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they're more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen.
Don McCullin
#78. 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.
Mireille Enos
#79. I imagine there's a level of narcissism that goes into thinking you're enough.
Michael Ian Black
#80. Shutting your heart away and letting bitterness and emptiness rule. Pretending that decay is to be celebrated, and ignoring everything that really matters. Don't you feel yourself disintegrating when you're around them? Feel as if you're getting sucked into their swamp of narcissism and hatred?
Lili Wilkinson
#81. 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
#82. but when we believe we are owed something by life, deserving more than the person to our right or left, we get caught in a vortex of narcissism that makes personal disruption impossible.
Whitney Johnson
#83. 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
#84. Narcissism makes people incapable of looking beyond themselves, beyond their own desires and needs.
Pope Francis
#85. 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
#86. Facebook users have higher levels of total narcissism, exhibitionism, and leadership than Facebook nonusers," the study's authors wrote. "In fact, it could be argued that Facebook specifically gratifies the narcissistic individual's need to engage in self-promoting and superficial behavior.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#87. I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.
Charles Kuralt
#88. Human beings invent myth, ideology, and religion as means of denying reality and replacing death with palliative fantasies. Helplessness and death are blows to human narcissism. Human beings create illusions about themselves, lie to themselves as a means to feel secure and less vulnerable.
Jerry Piven
#89. 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.
Tom Robbins
#90. So it is not simply by understanding doctrine that we uproot narcissism and materialism. It is by actually taking our place in a local expression of that concrete economy of grace instituted by God in Christ and sustained by his Word and Spirit.
Michael S. Horton
#91. The balls it took to proclaim a creative profession, the narcissism.
Lauren Groff
#92. For example, when I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary.
Brene Brown
#94. But the tacit undercurrent of her argument, as I felt it, was that Gallop's maternity had rotted her mind - besotted it with the narcissism that makes one think that an utterly ordinary experience shared by countless others is somehow unique, or uniquely interesting.
Maggie Nelson
#95. I just love being on stage and I love making music, and as far as - it's great for narcissism, because you have all those people screaming out your name.
Macy Gray
#96. My unhappiness precluded all else; unhappiness is a kind of narcissism, in which nothing that does not resonate with your unhappiness can interest you.
Caroline Kettlewell
#97. The tragedy of one successful politician after another is the gradual substitution of narcissism for an interest in the community and the measures for which he stands.
Bertrand Russell
#98. There is this business of the narcissism of love, the fourth-dimensional curve that takes you out into the other who is the whole world, which is really a twist back into yourself, only a different self.
Joanna Russ
#99. Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.
Norman Mailer
#100. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
Andre Dubus
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