Narcissism Quotes - Page 2

I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible self-esteem, along with boundless narcissism.

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

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

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

Beauty is a dangerous word. Beauty becomes slightly indulgent for me. It's a snatched kind of moment for me because I'm entitled to a nice day in my life but beauty creeps close to narcissism, which I really dislike, particularly in human beings who were born with good looks, who cash in on it. It's a bit of a dodgy word for me. I look at it with caution. It can be a bit like walking into quicksand; it can get you in to all kinds of trouble.

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.

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

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

I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent.

As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.

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.

A narcissism shared by two.

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

The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor.

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

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

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.

I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.

Let me tell you what I just heard. Talk, talk, talk, I. Talk, talk, talk, I. Well, what about me?

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

Leftism and narcissism are almost synonymous

It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live.

I'm not the guy in the dress with the blood and the unrequited gay whatever - which, according to my psychiatrist, my gayness is a form of narcissism but you'll have to ask him about that.

Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.