Narcissism Quotes - Page 3

• Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness, self-deprecation. At the same time they seem to see an emerging self that is unique and wonderful, they suffer an intense envy which tears narcissism into shreds, and makes other people's qualities hit them like an attack of lasers.

  Terri E Apter

  Self Confidence, Unique, Swings

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• If I post a selfie, and you like it, it's of little cost to you, but it feels great to me. That becomes addictive, and you see people's narcissism so quickly. I think that's a very dangerous thing for us all to be addicted to.

  Kim Stolz

  Thinking, People, Cost

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

  Merrill Markoe

  Echoes, Childhood, Training

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.

  Jane Fonda

  Children, Eye, Giving

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• No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.

  Tucker Max

  Dog, Narcissistic, Narcissist

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• I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible self-esteem, along with boundless narcissism.

  Anne Lamott

  Self Esteem, Middle, Terrible

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. March 2012.

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• Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

  Wilson Mizner

  Humility, Humble, Carpe Diem

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• Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you

  Dennis Prager

  Higher, Secularism

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• Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Life, Conceited, Narcissist

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• People, no matter the economic class, find ways to feed their narcissism.

  Lynne Tillman

  Class, People, Matter

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A narcissism shared by two.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Love, Two

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Venus Envy”, p.174, Bantam

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• We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the self - an undiluted hedonism and narcissism. That has become a very effective way to divert our attention while the country is reconfigured into a kind of neofeudalism, with a rapacious oligarchic elite and an anemic government that no longer is able to intercede on behalf of citizens but cravenly serves the interests of the oligarchy itself.

  Chris Hedges

  Country, Self, Government

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Hands, Ridiculous, Celebrate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.

  Brené Brown

  Fear, Feelings, Ordinary

  Brené Brown (2013). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.18, Penguin UK

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• No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it’s good rock and roll, good entertainment! I have a low tolerance for manipulative, egomaniacal behaviour, and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill.

  Kim Gordon

  Rock And Roll, Rocks, Tolerance

  "Kim Gordon Details Thurston Moore Split, Trashes Courtney Love, Billy Corgan in Memoir" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. February 3, 2015.

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• Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.

  Erich Fromm

  Way

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• Love of country cannot be a supersized version of individual narcissism. True love of country-of this country-is love of our children, of a creed that promises them a better life before it promises us anything, and embraces the sacrifices needed to make that better life. True love of country is giving ourselves to a cause and a purpose larger than ourselves. And that cause is to make liberty worth having, to make the pursuit of happiness deeper than the quest for personal pleasure, and to leave a legacy of progress and possibility.

  Eric Liu

  Love, Country, Children

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• I imagine there's a level of narcissism that goes into thinking you're enough.

  Michael Ian Black

  Thinking, Levels, Imagine

  "The Best-Laid Plans Of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

  John Steinbeck

  People, Narcissist, Curious

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.196, Penguin

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• The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

  Dennis Prager

  Idealism

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• If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

  Dennis Prager

  Religious, Passion, Law

  Dennis Prager (2016). “A Dark Time in America”, p.8, Creators Publishing

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• I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.

  Gena Showalter

  Afar

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Seduction”, p.43, HQN Books

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• He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

  Graham Greene

  Soul, Satisfied, Ifs

  Graham Greene (1980). “Doctor Fischer of Geneva: Or, The Bomb Party”, Simon & Schuster

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• I ended my Twitter account a week after I got on the show. I felt like, "This is not a good tool for me to keep my narcissism at bay," so I cut it off.

  Mireille Enos

  Cutting, Tools, Week

  Source: collider.com

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