535 Quotes About Narcissism

Cognitive insight (knowing something) is not like emotional insight (feeling something). It has no psychodynamic effects. It does not affect the narcissist's behavior patterns, or his interpersonal interactions - the products of well entrenched and rigid defense mechanisms.

The dysphorias - the bitter fruits of the narcissist's impossible demands of himself - are painful. Gradually the narcissist learns to avoid them by eschewing a structured narrative altogether…The narcissist pays a heavy price for accommodating his dysfunctional narratives: emptiness; existential aloneness .. meaninglessness. This fuels his envy and the resulting rage.

This Narcissus of oursCan’t see his face in the mirrorBecause he has become the mirror.

We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

Criticism is the fountainhead of control.

If anybody studying psychology wants a concrete example of what a narcissist looks like, I advise them to consider any man who cheats on his wife. These guys are the textbook me-firsters, the ones who think the rules don't apply to them, the ones who tell themselves as long as she doesn't know, there's no harm done. No woman needs to sleep with these guys. There are so many single self-absorbed narcissists who will fuck you poorly.

Narcissistic love is riding on the rollecoaster of disaster filled with a heart full of tears.

Among all these stupid pretty women she had such a sense of power, of knowing almost everything better than they did.

The greater our own level of narcissism, the more we detest it in others.