Narcissistic Quotes - Page 2

• If you're not selfish enough to want to feel good, then you can't connect with the energy that is your Source which does always feel good.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Self Esteem

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• There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

  Timothy Keller

  Self, Interesting, Miserable

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.21, Penguin

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• I met a new girl at a barbecue, very pretty, a blond I think. I don't know, her hair was on fire, and all she talked about was herself. You know these kind of girls: 'I'm hot. I'm on fire. Me, me, me.' You know. 'Help me, put me out.' Come on, could we talk about me just a little bit?

  Garry Shandling

  Girl, Selfish, Thinking

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• It's no wonder human beings are so narcissistic. The way our ears are constructed, we can hear only what is right next to us or else the internal monologue inside.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Ears, Way, Next

  Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA

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• It's really hard to have a fair discussion when you're faced with militarism, aggression, and greed. The militarists do not want dialogue. They want what they want. They're psychotic. They're greedy, they're narcissistic, and they're dangerous.

  Carolee Schneemann

  Greed, Psychotic, Dangerous

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We're stronger and braver TOGETHER. Do not let this world and this narcissistic culture make competitors out of the very people who are meant to be your comrades in arms.

  Beth Moore

  People, Together, Stronger

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• I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love.

  Emily Levine

  Self, Flip, Sides

  "Ready to Be Unprepared". Interview with Sudhamahi Regunathan, www.thehindu.com. December 07, 2012.

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• That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.

  Alice Miller

  Mourning, Heal, Has Beens

  Alice Miller (1981). “Prisoners of Childhood”, New York : Basic Books

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• Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  Mother Jones Magazine, Volume 22, No. 6, November - December 1997.

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• Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

  Warren Beatty

  Motivational, Children, Actors

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• You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

  Howard Stern

  Fire, Careers, Burning

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• No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.

  Tucker Max

  Dog, Narcissism, Narcissist

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• Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Too Much, Hateful

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.

  Bjork

  Albums, Three, Done

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• It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

  Alan Cohen

  Selfish, Love You, Responsibility

  Alan Cohen (2000). “Dare to Be Yourself”

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• How tragic it is that so often we stop everything just as we reach the starting line. We must move past the narcissistic preoccupation with getting the love we think 'works' for us. The point of love is to make us grow, not to make us immediately happy. Many of us have forsworn the chance for the deepest love in reaching out for the easier one.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Past, Love Is

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• I don't mind being artificial sometimes, because I like veiling myself. I mean, I'm not honest or sincere: I am self-centered and narcissistic. I just want to be this entity.

  Willis Earl Beal

  Mean, Mind, Honest

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.

  Ivan Illich

  People, Political, Demand

  Ivan Illich (1992). “In the Mirror of the Past: Lectures and Addresses, 1978-1990”, Marion Boyars

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• I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means.

  Kanye West

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.

  James Franco

  Not Caring, Self Love, Care

  James Franco (2013). “Actors Anonymous”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Men, Results, Marketplace

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, "This is our story, and this is who we are," and sort of this navel-gazing, narcissistic approach to comedy we're seeing these days.

  Tim Heidecker

  Book, Eric, Gazing

  "Tim and Eric Are Bringing Down Scientology With Jokes". Interview with Jill Krasny, www.esquire.com. July 8, 2015.

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• If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

  Joyce Meyer

  Happy, Keys, Selfishness

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• I can't do negative, needy, or narcissistic anymore. Oh wait, I can still do the last one, aw nuts.

  Bob Saget

  Nuts, Waiting, Negative

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2013

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