The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside. — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
“I do not walk into the storm unless I have been called into the storm. For the former is arrogance and the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Narcissists often feign oppression because narcissists always feel entitled.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The fact is, for years, I had been trapped in a certain narcissism and a desire to have a certain body and… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Narcissists only play for their own business, whereas Distortionists play with other’s business only to gain personal advantage. If you are both,… — Ashish Patel Copy Share Image
Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism. — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
The thing that scares me most is the shift from serving the people to exercising power and with it, this attendant narcissism.… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
There's like a little bit of a narcissism - I think there's more than a little bit of narcissism about it, but… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
“Abuse is never deserved, it is an exploitation of innocence and physical disadvantage, which is perceived as an opportunity by the abuser.” — Lorraine Nilon Copy Share Image
I ended my Twitter account a week after I got on the show. I felt like, "This is not a good tool… — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
We're not enamored of Trump's braggadocio narcissism. We're not enamored of Trump's lifestyle. None of that. We're just fed up with current… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Narcissistic pleasure seekers routinely avoid developing the humility required to manufacture a life of full measure. Shallow persons such as me hide… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“All civilisations have a tendency toward narcissism, and the stronger the civilisation, the more clearly this tendency will appear. It spurs civilisations… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
“I left the bedroom to judge distances in the hall. I was less comfortable in the rest of the flat but knew… — Tracie Daily Copy Share Image
“I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names,… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Children will, in my dream, be taught that laziness and narcissism are at the very root of human evil, and why this… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“What if the preacher or father’s saying ‘Someone here’s lost and hopeless’ was tantamount to those Sun-Times horoscopes that are specially designed… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Often, her mate is the child of a narcissist, already indoctrinated to regard exploitation and disregard as love. Others lured by the… — Elan Golomb Copy Share Image
In early psychoanalytic thought, narcissism was - and still, of course, is - self-love. The early psychoanalysts used to talk of libido… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
“(On choosing to write the book in third person, and using his name Norman as the nom de plume) NOW, OUR MAN… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“The fact of the matter is, if you haven’t been in an abusive relationship, you don’t really know what the experience is… — Shahida Arabi Copy Share Image
“Love Hurts. I daresay there’s two or three poems, six novels and at least twelve songs on the subject. That’s how the… — Daniel S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
“The vicious demand for happiness, regardless of circumstance, is not what one expects from one's own. Life is hard enough. Requiring a… — Christopher Zenos Copy Share Image
“Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
