Narcissism Quotes - Page 5

• What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance.

  Tom Ford

  Pride, Vanity, Different

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• The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

  Thomas Moore

  Ambition, Giving, Trying

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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• Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Funny, Witty, Falling In Love

  "Freedom". Book by Jonathan Franzen, 2010.

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• When I'm in touch with the idea that there is a higher power and that there is, you know, other factors at work, it - it kind of quells my narcissism.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Ideas, Kind, Working It

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Way, Feedback, Used

  "Reluctant pin-up: Marianne Faithfull reveals how she was damaged by her early brush with fame" by Rachel Shields, www.independent.co.uk. October 25, 2009.

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• I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, People, Narcissistic

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• Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

  Andrea Hirata

  Writing, Fighting, Expectations

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• I have a very simple question to people who seem to suffer from excessive narcissism: please name three other persons who are smarter and more capable than you, in the field you work in. (In most cases they are utterly unable to answer that question honestly.)

  Ingo Molnar

  Simple, Names, People

  LWN.net comment, lwn.net. June 12, 2011.

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• To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Focus, Done

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2013

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• Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Neurosis, Oscars, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.

  Will Wright

  Player, Games, Designer

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• Vanity, right?" Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. "I nominate my venerable brother. He likes to play hero, and one look at him should establish the vanity angle." "Nash!" I really shouldn't have been surprised by the dig. But I was. "What?" He raised one brow at me in challenge. "It's okay to call me jealous, but not to call him vain?" "Awareness of one's obvious advantages doesn't imply vanity," Tod insisted calmly. Nash turned on him. "Does it imply narcissism?" Tod huffed. "This coming from the guy who owns more hair products than his girlfriend.

  Rachel Vincent

  Girlfriend, Brother, Hero

  Rachel Vincent (2014). “Soul Screamers: Volume 4”, p.33, Harlequin

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• I just love being on stage and I love making music, and as far as - it's great for narcissism, because you have all those people screaming out your name.

  Macy Gray

  Love Is, Names, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.

  Rose Byrne

  Cynical, Twenties, Realizing

  "EXCLUSIVE: Rose Byrne is the Girl Next Door in ‘Neighbors’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. May 6, 2014.

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• Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

  Andre Dubus

  Sports, School, Self

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Eye, Reality, Expression

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Espresso Tales”, p.10, Anchor

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• It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live.

  Bryan Fuller

  Would Be, Assuming, Persons

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.

  Bill Ayers

  Letting Go, Writing, World

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• I was appalled at how children had become the focus and gravitational center of the nuclear family around which parents orbited instead of the traditional arrangement in which children orbited around their parents. This is a huge change because a critical job in early childhood is to get children weaned away from the total narcissism normal to infancy. With the children as the center of the family's actions and decisions, narcissism is at a minimum prolonged and may never significantly decline.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Children, Focus, Childhood

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I'm totally a narcissist, so I was doing all this performance and having lots of weird ego time, and learning to set aside my love for the ego and find a deeper love for myself and through that seeing myself as one with all beings. And through loving myself, loving all people in the world, that was my cure for narcissism, the only cure.

  Larkin Grimm

  People, Ego, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mother, Men, Self

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• I did not think I had what it took to be an actor, because most of the actors that I encountered were people who were very narcissistic and I thought since I lacked narcissism to become an actor because that's what it took. It was more of a social experiment for me to walk in the shoes of other people that I found interesting.

  Michael Jai White

  Thinking, Shoes, People

  "Interview with Falcon Rising star and martial artist Michael Jai White". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. September 8, 2014.

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• Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd

  Mark Rippetoe

  Bodybuilding, Men, Vanity

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• I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

  Charles Kuralt

  Desire, My Own, Knows

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• Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.

  Saint Augustine

  Self, Cities, Two

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