Narcissism Quotes - Page 2

• Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.

  John Oliver

  America

  "Guest Host John Oliver Will Try Not to Destroy 'The Daily Show' (Q&A)". Interview with Marisa Guthrie, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.

  Elia Kazan

  Underestimate, Never Underestimate

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Joy

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

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• I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

  Moby

  Thinking, Self, Importance

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• 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

  Men, Emotional, Discrepancies Between

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Love, Conceited, America

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.257, Vintage

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• Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

  Norman Mailer

  Stars, Simple, Giving

  Norman Mailer (2016). “Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968”, p.218, Random House

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• 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

  Self, Narcissistic, Flip

  "Ready to Be Unprepared". Interview with Sudhamahi Regunathan, www.thehindu.com. December 07, 2012.

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• The very wealthy and the very famous have a much closer affinity with the indigent street person than with the rest of us. There's the narcissism, the addiction, even the outlandish dress. Often they don't put great value in relationships.

  Drew Pinsky

  Success, Addiction, Dresses

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• My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

  Jay Baruchel

  Vanity, Never Let Me Go, Let Me Go

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 10, 2010.

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• Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.

  Lizz Winstead

  Thinking About You, People, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

  Henry Cloud

  Children, Pride, Parenting

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2009). “Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, How to Say No”, p.152, Harper Collins

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• Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.

  Mason Cooley

  Doe, His Love, Return

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• [Donald] Trump's narcissism seems to be reflected in his need to be liked and treated positively.

  David Krieger

  Needs, Trump, Treated

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Self, Cards, Credit

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

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• What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

  Epictetus

  Ego, World, Dies

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.220

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• The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.

  Erich Fromm

  Real, Love Is, Objectivity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people

  Jonathan Franzen

  Country, Using People, Heart

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.548, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• 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

  People, Perfect, Connections

  Jonathan Tropper (2010). “This Is Where I Leave You”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• My generation, we're more accepting of narcissism. But we're looking at images that are dead, that are on your phone. My friends have apps to make you look skinny, to make your skin look perfect. And we look at these images and we're like, "That's beauty. That's perfect." But when you see a real person, you're like, "Wait, that's not perfect."

  Elle Fanning

  Real, Perfect, Waiting

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• One thing that's great about having kids, especially given my career, is that it forces you out of your narcissism. I mean, I'm in a career where my product is me. So it was nice to have something, someone, come along and take the focus off me. I really needed to give myself some distractions from myself.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Nice, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.

  Bertrand Russell

  Illustration, People, Giving

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.68, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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

  Jobs, Accomplishment, Perfection

  "The Tweaker" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. November 14, 2011.

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• I am in love with you', I responded. He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh. 'Of course you are,' he replied. 'I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.' It was my turn to laugh.

  Anne Rice

  Love You, Mirrors, Self

  Anne Rice (2002). “Blackwood Farm”, Knopf

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• Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.

  Erich Fromm

  Giving Up, Mean, Self

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