535 Quotes About Narcissism

Narcissism is, indeed, the new world order.

Increasingly, we are emptying the connection,respect, and empathy out of one of the most important and healthy of human experiences and turning it into branding, showmanship, and posturing. In the midst of this epidemic and cultural shift into narcissism, relationships have taken the hardest hit of all.

There’s the appeal of the young thief who robs you, and climbs back down off your cloud. It’s possible to love that boy, in a wistful and hopeless way. It’s possible to love his greed and narcissism, to grant him that which is beyond your own capacities: heedlessness, cockiness, a self-devotion so pure it borders on the divine.

I was trapped in an awful spiral of insecure narcissism

I'm too ugly to be a narcissist.

Cuando quiero intensamente a una persona, no digo nunca su nombre a nadie. Es como ceder una parte de ella. He aprendido a amar en secreto.

Look for your other halfWho walks along next to you,And tends to be what you aren’t.

Having invented himself, the narcissist sees no problem in recasting that which he had designed in the first place. The narcissist is his own repeated Creator - hence his grandiosity.

There's a reason narcissists don't learn from mistakes and that's because they never get past the first step which is admitting that they made one. It's always an assistant's fault, an adviser's fault, a lawyer's fault. Ask them to account for a mistake any other way and they'll say, 'what mistake?