Best Narcissistic Sayings
82 Narcissistic quotes by 78 unique authors
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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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Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether…
— Vera Wang
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My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress…
— Evgeny Morozov
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Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality.…
— Camille Paglia
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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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Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to…
— Tom Robbins
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I don't care what you think unless it is about me.
— Kurt Cobain
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And after I act as your intermediary and he takes you back to Faery, then what?" "Then all will be made right, and I'll be…
— Karen Marie Moning
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...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a…
— Dennis Lehane
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But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she starts a charity…
— John Green
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Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood." "I'd chalk it up…
— Darynda Jones
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In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who…
— Alison Bechdel
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I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.
— Brene Brown
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Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation.
— Julia Glass
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If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless, inconsistent…
— Koren Zailckas
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America, ever the narcissistic mother, prefers baby bumps to children and expectant mothers to full-fledged bum-and-nose-wiping ones.
— Koren Zailckas
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As long as we depend on other women for self-esteem, using them as bad examples or fantasy versions - special, powerful - of ourselves, they…
— Koren Zailckas
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Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality, our…
— James Howard Kunstler
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Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.
— Jason Isaacs
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I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.
— Joni Mitchell
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I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.
— James Woods
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Even if you happen to physically beautiful, if you attitude, words and actions are repulsive, then the looks don't matter anymore because you'll still be…
— Kels Holstine
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What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care…
— Erica Jong
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