Narcissism Quotes

• Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Change, Humble

  "Unexpected Intimacy: Everyday Connections that Nourish the Soul". Book by Cindy Gabriel, p. 117, 2008.

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• Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

  Todd Solondz

  Self, Bridges, Hype

  "Sanity and Solitude: Cogent Ramblings of a Lone Aesthetic". Book by Bob Spencer, p. 81, 2012.

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• Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Clever, Self Esteem, Fall

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• An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.

  Carl Jung

  Learning, Past, Drawing

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1953). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and alchemy”

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• 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

  Fall, Clueless, Axes

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• Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Mean, People

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

  Frank Leahy

  Pain, Nfl, Stupidity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

  Voltaire

  Love, Self, Anorexia

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• Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

  Diane Black

  Humorous, Humility, Space

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• Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.

  Sam Vaknin

  Hate, Omnipotence, Narcissist

  Sam Vaknin (2014). “A to Z of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder Encyclopedia: The Narcissism Bible”, p.714, Narcissus Publishing

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• 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

  Practice, Discipline, Feelings

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• The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.

  Sam Vaknin

  People, Narcissistic, Shells

  Sam Vaknin (2005). “Diary of a Narcissist”, p.90, Narcissus Publishing

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• He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Fall, Temporary Insanity

  Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1738

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• I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Vanity, Style Icons

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• The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back.

  Mason Cooley

  Narcissist, Enjoy, Looking Back

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

  Mason Cooley

  Giving, Admiration, Indifference

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• Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Self, Snakes

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• 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

  Fighting, Vanity, Needs

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  Stress, Might Use, Needs

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• Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

  George V. Higgins

  Art, Ego, Seeing

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• America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn't create you to live for you. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to put aside your selfish ambition.

  Rick Warren

  Life, Jesus, Selfish

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• I don't care what you think unless it is about me...

  Kurt Cobain

  Thinking, Narcissistic, Care

  "Song: Drain You (Nevermind)". September 24, 1991.

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• Narcissism really spreads its wings and soars on twitter. It's like watching a dragon hatch and learn to fly.

  Dave Anthony

  Dragons, Wings, Soar

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• Narcissism, like the other personality disorders, is a condition that's known as ego-syntonic. In other words, the paranoid person really does believe that people are after him, and the narcissist really does believe that he or she is better than or more entitled than other people, and truly doesn't see why that's not the case.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Believe, People, Personality

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• All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Kind, Understood, Collectives

  "Because you're worth it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2006.

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