Casts Quote by Sam Vaknin Download Open image “The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.” — Sam Vaknin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Casts Empty Narcissism Narcissist Narcissistic Output People Productivity Shells
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“We all view life through the lens of these experiences, but the Narcissist has something more, not just a lens but a prism that… — Sandy Hotchkiss Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may… — Anders Chydenius Copy Share Image
If aspects of the person remain undigested-cut off, denied, projected, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated-they become the points around which the core forces of… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
“…I’ve seen the world tell us with wars and real estate developments and bad politics and odd court decisions that our lives don’t matter.… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Like their parents, they will be devourers, for when they can no longer consume, they become limp, raw food. That is the monster twitching… — Bev Jafek Copy Share Image
“This narrative is the basis for the everyday narcissism that almost everyone shares. Why is this a form of narcissism? Because, as a result… — Nancy Van Dyken Copy Share Image
“All civilisations have a tendency toward narcissism, and the stronger the civilisation, the more clearly this tendency will appear. It spurs civilisations into conflict… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
“Groupies and hangers-on somehow fancy themselves entitled to the narcissist’s favour and largesse, his time, attention, and other resources. They convince themselves that they… — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that… — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
“Romantic jealousy is a narcissistic defence. It reflects the narcissistic traits and behaviours of possessiveness;” — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
“Go ahead. Tell our friends about it. See if they can imagine what it's like, let alone believe it. The more outrageous the things… — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence. — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
“narcissist hates you wholeheartedly and thoroughly simply because you are.” — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just there. They… — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
“To rank economic activities as more or less preferable is ideology, not science: a judgment that is driven by values and predilections, not by… — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague,… — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I was focused on The Hunger Games movie with my director, with the studio, and with the cast and crew. We all just focused… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority.… — John Owen Copy Share Image
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside. — Craig Lancaster Copy Share Image
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image