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113 Narcissism quotes by 101 unique authors

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
I don't care what you think unless it is about me. — Kurt Cobain
Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first… — Jonathan Tropper
The nobility of the human spirit grows harder for me to believe in. War, zealotry, greed, malls, narcissism. I see a backhanded nobility in excessive,… — Mary Roach
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. — Jonathan Franzen
This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has… — David Foster Wallace
Then they both smiled the exact same smile. Narcissism times two. Oh, get a room already. — Devon Monk
Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control… — Jonathan Franzen
Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with… — Jonathan Franzen
Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if… — Mark Z. Danielewski
Let me tell you what I just heard. Talk, talk, talk, I. Talk, talk, talk, I. Well, what about me? — Gena Showalter
I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close. — Gena Showalter
The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein... provided that the mother… — Donald Woods Winnicott
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no… — John Barth
If you're going to play what-if --which, by the way, is a huge waste of time and energy, not to mention an act of supreme,… — Jefferson Bass
I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did. — Frank O'Hara
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… — BrenÃ© Brown
To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism — Tullian Tchividjian
He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied. — Graham Greene
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,… — Rachel Vincent
These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second… — Bertrand Russell
Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise of writing law… — Amity Shlaes
Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words. — Adam Goldberg
I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it. It is actually… — Emily Levine

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