Narcissist Quotes

• Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

  Todd Solondz

  Self, Bridges, Hype

  "Sanity and Solitude: Cogent Ramblings of a Lone Aesthetic". Book by Bob Spencer, p. 81, 2012.

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• Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.

  M. Scott Peck

  Thinking, Hands, Evil

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• The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Powerful, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.

  Sam Vaknin

  People, Narcissistic, Shells

  Sam Vaknin (2005). “Diary of a Narcissist”, p.90, Narcissus Publishing

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• A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

  Gore Vidal

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Cynicism

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Dec 08, 2011

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• Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.

  Mason Cooley

  Giving, Admiration, Narcissism

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• Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Mean, People

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Narcissism, like the other personality disorders, is a condition that's known as ego-syntonic. In other words, the paranoid person really does believe that people are after him, and the narcissist really does believe that he or she is better than or more entitled than other people, and truly doesn't see why that's not the case.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Believe, People, Personality

  Source: www.dinnerpartydownload.org

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• 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, a devastation, an inescapable verdict.

  Sam Vaknin

  Devastation, Emotion, Sadistic

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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, Narcissistic, Flip

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

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• It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

  Voltaire

  Love, Self, Anorexia

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• Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.

  Sam Vaknin

  Hate, Omnipotence, Narcissism

  Sam Vaknin (2014). “A to Z of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder Encyclopedia: The Narcissism Bible”, p.714, Narcissus Publishing

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• I don't think Trump is a deeply self-aware person. But he's absolutely off the charts as a narcissist. He is the consummate narcissistic salesman. He is in fact a sick man. And that's potentially very dangerous. The only positive thing about Trump is that he has no ideology, he is an empty vessel, surrounded by people who give him ideas, and it only matters which ideas will shine the light on Trump.

  John Dean

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Learning to spot narcissists and deal with their destructive behavior can save you the world of hurt that awaits anyone who mistakes the near enemy for a friend.

  Martha Beck

  Hurt, Mistake, Enemy

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• It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

  David Brooks

  Memories, Loss, Suffering

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• Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Fall, Clueless, Axes

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• I don't care what you think unless it is about me...

  Kurt Cobain

  Thinking, Narcissistic, Care

  "Song: Drain You (Nevermind)". September 24, 1991.

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• Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

  Thomas Szasz

  Love, Successful, Conceited

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• Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

  Cornel West

  Clever, Yield, Self

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2013

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• Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Life, Conceited, Narcissism

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Clever, Self Esteem, Fall

  Source: www.dinnerpartydownload.org

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• The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

  Tucker Max

  World

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• I think political situations usually work their way into my writing, but not necessarily in an explicit way. The environment is so chaotic now. There is someone so entirely unreliable in charge, and reliable only in the fact that Thing - I don't say his name - is a pathological narcissist. He's going to do whatever he can to defend himself and whatever will make him look good. That's what matters to him.

  Lynne Tillman

  Writing, Thinking, Political

  Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

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• I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world. They have no concept of their behavior or how it might be affecting other people. So comedically, it's a very fun type of character to play. They are bulls in a china shop, twenty-four seven.

  Michael Showalter

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Self, Snakes

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