Quotes About Narcissistic Parents

#1. I've always liked rooms where the party hasn't started yet ... I love the feeling that anything could happen. After the party, when anything already has happened, there's usually the inevitable fact to face that anything wasn't all you'd hoped it to be. - Author: Jillian Lauren

#2. I am not a killer. I just win - Thoroughly - After all, winning isn't everything but wanting to win is. - Author: Ziad K. Abdelnour

#3. My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman. - Author: Nawal El Saadawi

#4. It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought. - Author: Ernest Hemingway,

#5. 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. - Author: Kim Gordon

#6. You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest. - Author: Denis Waitley

#7. Whatever was going on between my parents, I suppose that my fantasy of self-sufficiency, my heavy investment in my own mind, is also a kind of narcissistic cathexis. - Author: Alison Bechdel

#8. Exacerbate, v.
I believe your exact words were: You're getting too emotional. - Author: David Levithan

#9. Live by your own rules. Dont let anybody hold you back. Be different and be yourself. You only get to live once, so make it whatever you want it to be. - Author: A.T. Veatch

#10. Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it's about me. It's a generation that's been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part. - Author: Marcus Buckingham

#11. Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class. - Author: Elizabeth Warren

#12. It seemed that there was nothing you could find here that was not expensive and very little that was actually necessary. - Author: Anthony Horowitz

#13. Brains are more important than looks. That's what ugly people say. - Author: Cindi Madsen

#14. It's like having explosives on board 24/7, the way I feel. I can't believe when I touch things they don't blow to bits. I can't believe I was so way off.
I thought, I don't know, I thought wrong. - Author: Jandy Nelson

#15. I can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't appreciate it. It's like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road. - Author: Douglas Coupland

#16. A child's brain is like fly paper that hangs from a barn ceiling: it doesn't get to choose which memories fly away free and which memories stick to death. - Author: Helen Peppe

#17. I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get it. - Author: Tina Turner

#18. You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable. - Author: Peter Doig