Best Narcissism Sayings
113 Narcissism quotes by 101 unique authors
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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…
— Moby
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I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I…
— Michelle Pfeiffer
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Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange…
— Jason Reitman
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Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
— Todd Solondz
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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…
— Susan Sullivan
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Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as…
— Allen Tate
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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
— Voltaire
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
— Diana Vreeland
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I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none.…
— Ayelet Waldman
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It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're…
— Rachel Weisz
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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…
— Geoff Mulgan
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All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.
— Geoff Mulgan
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I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is…
— Colm Toibin
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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…
— Sylvia Plath
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The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.
— Dennis Prager
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For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.
— John Steinbeck
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What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you and I. We…
— George Saunders
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There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system…
— Tony Hoagland
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If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the…
— Steve Erickson
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I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience…
— Derrick Jensen
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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
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Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
— Erich Fromm
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Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all…
— Haruki Murakami
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The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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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…
— Anne Rice
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