Top 59 Quotes About Narcissists
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.
David Brooks
#8. Criminally negligent narcissists, child endangerers, child abusers, religious maniacs, and kleptoparasites, meaning they stole from their own descendants. These things happen.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#9. 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
#10. Now we've got an entire generation of fucked-up narcissists 'cause their mamas told them they're special.
Mark Gimenez
#11. 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
#12. Nobody enjoys being on display," said Isabel. But then she thought: Some do, and so she added, "Except actors. And narcissists.
Alexander McCall Smith
#14. I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked ... and comedians are always talking about politics.
Aasif Mandvi
#15. It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.
Matt Taibbi
#16. Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars ... or narcissists.
Lee Radziwill
#17. 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
#18. Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh, they make you think; the first time you met, they probably charmed the pants off of you - perhaps even literally. The odds are also that that spell didn't last.
Jeffrey Kluger
#19. I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly.
Paul Giamatti
#20. Jerk equals narcissist.Narcissists tend to be risk takers. Risk takers happen to do better in general in businesses. So jerk equals narcissist, equals risk taker.
Eric Bolling
#21. Though they are quick to put others down, unhealthy narcissists view themselves in absolutely positive terms. They
Daniel Goleman
#22. I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.
William Hurt
#23. The paradox is that no love can prove so intense
as the love of two narcissists for each other.
Norman Mailer
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
Cornel West
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. The most uninteresting thing in the world is watching narcissists fuck each other.
Jarett Kobek
#30. 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
#31. 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
#33. Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.
Nicholas Kristof
#34. I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world.
Michael Showalter
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Relationships with narcissists are held in place by hope
of a "someday better," with little evidence to support it will ever arrive.
Ramani Durvasula
#38. Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
Alain Badiou
#39. 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
#40. Narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet.
Anna C. Salter
#41. People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
Yoko Ono
#42. Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.
Sam Vaknin
#43. 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
#44. The world is so rife with narcissists that none of them take enough notice of me.
Eleanor Bron
#46. Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
Jonathan Franzen
#47. 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
#48. Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#49. Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.
Jean Lorrain
#51. She realized in an instant that being around him awakened her, stirring the sediment that had long ago settled at the bottom of her well. He made her feel a part of him, of something larger, and somehow more alive.
Luna Saint Claire
#52. 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
#53. 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
#56. In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense
Munia Khan
#57. True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#58. 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
#59. 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
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