Boastful Quote by Kilroy J. Oldster

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of…

— Dean Koontz

“When narcissists are confronted by people who disparage the legitimacy of their extravagant claims, they tend to react badly. They may plunge into depression—or…

— Jon Krakauer

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

“The narcissist cultivated your need for his or her validation and approval early on in the idealization phase. By making you dependent on his or…

— Shahida Arabi

“The irony is that their enthusiasm for personal revelation can backfire badly and have the opposite effect. People become their own worst enemies and…

— Susan C. Young

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction…

— Rollo May

“At a moment when we must face too much self-righteousness and narcissism on our path, it is a soothing relief for our soul if…

— Erik Pevernagie

“The pain of the narcissist is that, to him, everything is really a threat. What doesn't surrender in reverence is blasphemous to a high…

— Criss Jami

“You may remember that the narcissist essentially experiences and understands others as if they were an extension of his own self. He, therefore, feels…

— Eleanor Payson

“There was nothing more unattractive than narcissism, she thought: nothing could transform beauty into a cloying, unattractive quality than that self-conscious appreciation of self.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

— Stacey Scott Mae

If you tell a narcissist that someone is less than them in any way, they feel gratified; they feel very good about that.

— Indya Moore