A Quote by Sam Vaknin

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

Sam Vaknin

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Aside Casts Empty Narcissist Output People Shells

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Sam Vaknin
Israeli - Writer
Born: April 21, 1961

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.

Thomas Piketty

Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.

Aldous Huxley

If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the same, he’s describing the human condition. But people seem to evaluate your work based on how much they relate to it, so it’s like, well, who’s the narcissist?

Emily Gould

Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

Aldous Huxley

But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.

Samuel Beckett

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.

Mark Twain

When I was in college, the Kargil War had just happened, and I remember going with my friends on a bike to collect empty shells.

Mohit Raina

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

Tucker Max

For me narcissism is not about money. For me, narcissism is something so romantic and something so human. Everybody is a narcissist. Some people admit it and some people don't. As an artist, it's important to be a narcissist. Look at Picasso, look at Warhol.... As an artist, you can get away with a lot of things that normal people cannot.

Nir Hod

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.

Herbert A. Simon

One way to measure the size of a company, industry, or economy is to determine its output. But a better way is to determine its added value - namely, the difference between the value of its outputs, that is, the goods and services it produces, and the costs of its inputs, such as the raw materials and energy it consumes.

Michael Spence

Muhammad was a narcissist and Muslims, by having entered into his bubble universe have become narcissists by extension. More precisely, they are reverse narcissists. A commonly used term for reverse narcissist is co-dependent.

Ali Sina

The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.

Emanuel Swedenborg

We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no cure for narcissistic personality disorder. If you have a relationship with someone who has it, there will be a certain level of pain built into it. I don't think you can have a close, loving relationship with a narcissist, and I don't think it's possible to be a true narcissist and be a good mother.