Narcissism Quotes

“the narcissism of small differences.”

— Ray Dalio

Criticism is the fountainhead of control.

— Susan Forward

Narcissism is definitely the original sin!

— Rev Richard Skaff

We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

— Christopher Lasch

Leftism and narcissism are almost synonymous

— Dennis Prager

“Lies don't end relationships the truth does.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“I'm everything that you're not.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

“As if it wouldn’t rain without you...”

— Daya Kudari

You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

— Nick Nolte

Then they both smiled the exact same smile. Narcissism times two. Oh, get a room already.

— Devon Monk

“Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.”

— Hanif Kureishi

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Lynne Tillman

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

— David Krieger

“Sugar is for the body as narcissism is for the soul. Both pleasures kill.”

— Robin Sacredfire

The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: 'I alone can do this.'

— Andy Dunn

Because that's what narcissism is all about; looking in the mirror everyday and thinking 'Damn, I'd like to shag myself.'

— Eddie Izzard

I'm not the guy in the dress with the blood and the unrequited gay whatever - which, according to my psychiatrist, my…

— Bradford Cox

“Your biggest mistake is thinking the other person gets affected or cares about how you feel. You think, your suffering, your feelings,…

— Himmilicious

I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it.…

— Emily Levine

“But that’s the thing about narcissists. They can try to fool you, with all their heart, but in the end, they’re just…

— Ellie Fox

I just love being on stage and I love making music, and as far as - it's great for narcissism, because you…

— Macy Gray

“Kill me if I ever look that Bad" . . . "Dude, what are you saying? . . . On the TV?…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

If you're going to play what-if --which, by the way, is a huge waste of time and energy, not to mention an…

— Jefferson Bass

Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness,…

— Terri E Apter

Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has…

— John Walford

I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential…

— John Edwards

Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive,…

— Erich Fromm

I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing…

— Kelly Clarkson

“The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from…

— Criss Jami

For me narcissism is not about money. For me, narcissism is something so romantic and something so human. Everybody is a narcissist.…

— Nir Hod

“(On choosing to write the book in third person, and using his name Norman as the nom de plume) NOW, OUR MAN…

— Norman Mailer

In early psychoanalytic thought, narcissism was - and still, of course, is - self-love. The early psychoanalysts used to talk of libido…

— Robert Jay Lifton

“The narcissist, cut off from her spirituality, is one who spends unquantifiable energy supporting and maintaining and utterly and completely fake self,…

— Stacey Scott Mae

“Each time something more interesting than you turns up— at work, a person, an opportunity—he will ignore you again. The disappointment each…

— Ramani Durvasula

“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

“If anybody studying psychology wants a concrete example of what a narcissist looks like, I advise them to consider any man who…

— Julie Klausner

I was appalled at how children had become the focus and gravitational center of the nuclear family around which parents orbited instead…

— Judith M Bardwick

“Many survivors of a narcissist discover that they've sacrificed so much in an attempt to please the narcissist that they've lost sight…

— Tracy Malone