Children Quote by Neil Strauss

“I was always too self-centered and irresponsible to have kids. I know that never stopped many others, but I am a narcissist with a…

— Debbie Kasper

“Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.”

— Ann Packer

“Love made us partners in narcissism”

— Jonathan Tropper

“...Narcissus was so egotist...he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only…

— Truman Capote

“He was a precocious and delicate little boy, quivering with the malaise of being unloved. When we played, his child's heart would come into…

— Harold Brodkey

“He believed that kids who’d been slammed around needed to stick together, from start to finish. And he spotted others of his kind so…

— S.E. Jakes

“Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love;”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“He pursued a lifetime of abuse that could only come from a warped relationship with the future.”

— Dana Spiotta

“He always behaved like one who has been deprived of love.”

— David Howarth

“He felt teenage rejection overcoming him like a childhood virus that lies dormant, then attacks the unsuspecting adult. It would never be something he…

— Kenneth Eade

“Narcissists expect you to be fit and healthy because the very reason for having children was so that they would be their supporters and…

— Diana Macey

“He was part of a ruined generation of young men coddled by their parents -by their mothers especially- raised on unearned self-esteem, in a…

— Jess Walter