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.
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love.
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
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.
Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.
I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.
No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.
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.
I don't care what you think unless it is about me...
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
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.
A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those "liberals" who prefer to improve the lives of others rather than exploit them. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the hightest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume.
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