Quotes About Narcissistic Love

#1. Narcissistic love is riding on the rollecoaster of disaster filled with a heart full of tears.

Sheree' Griffin

#2. When the dust has settled years later, we might ask ourselves, "What was I thinking?" and the answer is usually: You weren't. Psychologists call that state of deluded madness "narcissistic love." I call it "my twenties.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#4. No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody. I'm not hear to please.

Britney Spears

#5. Loving yourself ... does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion

Margot Anand

#6. There are some honorable politicians; and God bless them, there aren't many of them - but they're narcissistic. They need people to love them.

Ann Coulter

#7. 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

#8. It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

Jeffrey Kluger

#9. The love for a child is more an unconditional sort of love ... Although some parents are really narcissistic. In general, I think there is an expectation that love will be unconditional, but obviously it's not - even after living with someone for years.

Kim Gordon

#10. The human libido is essentially narcissistic, but it seeks a world to love as it loves itself.

Norman O. Brown

#11. The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic ... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

Germaine Greer

#12. We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

Criss Jami

#13. 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

#14. I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; we're so different, but I find him so funny, and I can be just as seemingly narcissistic as he comes off, the 'it's all about me' kind of thing.

Chevy Chase

#15. If I'm my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the supreme delusion of a runaway ego looking out for "number one." In fact, just the opposite is true.

Sharon Salzberg

#17. In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person.
So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.

Alison Bechdel

#18. Compassion is a fundamental principle of meditation. Meditation is not a narcissistic, self-interested path. It provides the foundation for love, integrity, compassion, respect and sensitivity (Feldman, 1998, p.2).

Christina Feldman

#19. It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

Alan Cohen

#20. Coming, fearless leader. Keep your fur on,
because according to Meryn, you are fugly without it.

Alanea Alder

#21. It was a dream I had. I just wanted to put it down on paper.

Fizza Younis

#22. 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

#23. Faith fills a man with love for the beauty of its truth, with faith in the truth of its beauty

Saint Francis De Sales

#24. Oh yeah," Zane says and smirks at me. "I had her for dinner once. Best meal of my life.

Nicole Christie

#25. Sustenance for the infant and child is more than alimentary nourishment. The child needs love, security, narcissistic supplies
however one may describe it.

Alexander Lowen

#26. Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.

Malcolm Boyd

#27. Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. With respect to pain, then, and pleasure, or death and life, or honour and dishonour, which the universal nature employs equally, whoever is not equally affected is manifestly acting impiously.

Marcus Aurelius

#29. A child is a part of the self, and of the loved partner; a representation of generations past; the genes of the forebears; the hope of the future; a source of love, pleasure, even narcissistic delight; a tie or a burden; and sometimes a symbol of the worst parts of the self and others.

Beverly Raphael

#30. Love is like this, Faye thinks now. We love people because they love us. It's narcissistic. It's best to be perfectly clear about this and not let abstractions like fate and destiny muddle the issue. Peggy, after all, could have picked any boy in the school.

Nathan Hill