Top 222 Narcissism Quotes & Sayings

Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.

Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.

In early psychoanalytic thought, narcissism was - and still, of course, is - self-love. The early psychoanalysts used to talk of libido directed at the self. That now feels a little quaint, that kind of language. But it does include the most fierce and self-displaying form of one's individual self. And in this way, it can be dangerous. When you look at Donald Trump, you can really see someone who's destructive to any form of life enhancement in virtually every area. And if that's what Fromm means by malignant narcissism, then it definitely applies.

When you're an actor, you can be hindered by your own narcissism.

Leftism and narcissism are almost synonymous

I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.

The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.

Modern football tends to bring out the narcissism of those who sit on the bench.

To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism

What I'm trying to achieve with my surgery is my own personal satisfaction. It's narcissism.

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.

A little narcissism is good. At least that's what I am telling myself.

Because that's what narcissism is all about; looking in the mirror everyday and thinking 'Damn, I'd like to shag myself.'

maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.

Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.

There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

People, no matter the economic class, find ways to feed their narcissism.

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.

I was appalled at how children had become the focus and gravitational center of the nuclear family around which parents orbited instead of the traditional arrangement in which children orbited around their parents. This is a huge change because a critical job in early childhood is to get children weaned away from the total narcissism normal to infancy. With the children as the center of the family's actions and decisions, narcissism is at a minimum prolonged and may never significantly decline.

I'm quite a shy person, and I dislike narcissism intensely.

If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation.

Children will, in my dream, be taught that laziness and narcissism are at the very root of human evil, and why this is so. . . . They will come to know that the natural tendency of the individual in a group is to forfeit his or her ethical judgment to the leader, and that this tendency should be resisted. And they will finally see it as each individual's responsibility to continually examine himself or herself for laziness and narcissism and then to purify themselves accordingly.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

There's like a little bit of a narcissism - I think there's more than a little bit of narcissism about it, but it's just that you can become so anxious and self-obsessive about whether this thing that I'm writing is good; is this joke that I'm making good?

There's a thin line between narcissism, even if it's a healthy narcissism, and entertainment.

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

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

I had written a lot about my dog dying before. I wrote a newspaper column about it and it turned out to be the most popular column I'd ever written. That and the lame Joni Mitchell column I did. But the dog column, my god! People love dogs. Anybody who writes regularly should know, when in doubt: dogs! If you're a columnist, when in doubt, write a column about the culture of narcissism - like a scolding column about the culture of narcissism - or write something about dogs. That's the homerun in my take.

Narcissism is a strong word, but it is narcissistic to expect everybody in a culture to reflect your own image back at you.

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

Narcissism in moderate amounts is not harmful to health.

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism.

I'm not a fan of the selfie. I think it's at the heart of the narcissism that social media brings into our lives.

I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that.

I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.

Then they both smiled the exact same smile. Narcissism times two. Oh, get a room already.

When I'm in touch with the idea that there is a higher power and that there is, you know, other factors at work, it - it kind of quells my narcissism.

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.

Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster its share of narcissism. It was the tragic fate of Narcissus that he was so preoccupied with self that he could not appreciate God, nature, or the other.

Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise of writing law out of New Deal nostalgia is a form of national narcissism. Call it New Deal narcissism.

Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.

It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.

I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.

A narcissism shared by two.

[Donald] Trump's narcissism seems to be reflected in his need to be liked and treated positively.

No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.

I imagine there's a level of narcissism that goes into thinking you're enough.

The two pillars of feminism are narcissism and entitlement.

Modern football is increasingly dominated by the coaches - their narcissism to put themselves above the team and their players.

Narcissism as a virtue is very futuristic. Narcissism as a quality is where I think things are heading.

Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as perfect and whole, the loss of a major portion of our infantile, limitless, ain't-I-wonderful narcissism which we had to give up in the face of compelling reality. Modified and reshaped into ethical goals and moral standards and a vision of what at our finest we might be, our dream of perfection lives on--our lost narcissism lives on--in our ego ideal.

Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

Narcissism is just self-confidence.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.