Narcissistic Quotes

People are very narcissistic. It's not all their fault. We live in a society where there is a magazine for you, a channel for you, a perfume for you. — Bill Maher

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist. — Sloane Crosley

Conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. — Dennis Lehane

I really believe in a oneness. So if I'm looking at somebody else, it's not in a narcissistic way, but you're kind of seeing yourself. — Toni Collette

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic. — Rod Serling

Authentic happiness is not selfish, egotistical or narcissistic, in fact, it is essential in order for humankind to thrive — Lisa Cypers Kamen

Somehow I believed it was my obligation to try to do the right thing by her because she had given birth to me. — D.G. Kaye

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern — Dean Koontz

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem. — Lorraine Bracco

I seem to be attracted to the quiet, brooding type. But not too brooding. Too brooding can be narcissistic. Or psychotic. — Kelli Garner

Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think, 'Everything here is obeying my conjecture.' It's a wonderfully narcissistic feeling. — Geoffrey West

If I'm my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless. — Hari Kunzru

I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera. — David Brooks

Selfies are disgusting. — Brenna Ehrlich

I think I'm a shy, self-conscious person who thinks he's being looked at and tries to look okay. Not in a hottie, narcissistic way necessarily. — Mark Leyner

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in. — Criss Jami

Always be yourself ... unless you're mean and narcissistic; then don't. — Charles F. Glassman

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic. — Zoe Saldana

Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Gwen hates me," she reminded him.
"Don't be narcissistic. She hates everyone. — Shelly Laurenston

It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility. — Alan Cohen

'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state. — Walton Goggins

Always be yourself, is generally good advice. Unless, you're mean and narcissistic; then please don't take that advice. — Charles F. Glassman

Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha! — Marina And The Diamonds

Many quotes about Self Motivation are not succinct but long and directly or covertly narcissistic. — Me

Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was. — Gore Vidal

I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I've been saved from myself. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them. — Alain Badiou

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think. — Marjane Satrapi

Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation. — Julia Glass

To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. — Richard Hofstadter

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition. — Jason Isaacs

I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it ... It is unrequited self-love. — Emily Levine

The man is too narcissistic, too shallow and cowardly for suicide. Days — Joyce Carol Oates

You don't want to end up living a horribly narcissistic life, do you? And everything about fame and celebrity sort of suggests that kind of fate. — Jodhi May

Really? Paul Ryan truly prefers that a narcissistic, ignorant, ungovernable, unqualified, race-baiting, misogynistic moron becomes our next president? — Richard North Patterson

... there is endless despair at the centre of every narcissistic self-portrait. — M. John Harrison

Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic — Rumi

To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish. — James Woods

Most novelists are narcissistic egomaniacs who would probably fit somewhere on the CEO spectrum. — Joshua Cohen

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

Your girlfriend is a narcissistic bitch, and you're an indecisive coward. Congrats on creating a little human that's perfect. — Tarryn Fisher

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. — Sylvia Plath

Ego is borne of the need to 'prove' oneself instead of making the choice to 'be' oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I am indeed my own god, I'd better start praying to myself to get myself out of myself. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic? — Billy Porter

That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds
not to have been loved just as one truly was
cannot heal without the work of mourning. — Alice Miller

When we are addicted to an image; it is narcissistic.The image is all we care about, not the depth.-Serena Jade — Serena Jade

I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic. — Bjork

The avant garde is so narcissistic. — Michael Graves

It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature. — Koren Zailckas

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic. — Chris Hardwick

America, ever the narcissistic mother, prefers baby bumps to children and expectant mothers to full-fledged bum-and-nose-wiping ones. — Koren Zailckas

I can't do negative, needy, or narcissistic anymore. Oh wait, I can still do the last one, aw nuts. — Bob Saget

If it's about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I'm sitting in. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit. — Marianne Williamson

If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role model you need. — Arinn Dembo

You are aggressive", says the emotional abusive. — Mark Brightlife

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. — Joni Mitchell

There are some honorable politicians; and God bless them, there aren't many of them - but they're narcissistic. They need people to love them. — Ann Coulter

The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!" — George Carlin

Materialistic I'm narcissistic My shoe game is mean It's so sadistic — Nicki Minaj

A lot of pictures of yourself - you know, it's a little narcissistic. — Barack Obama

The human libido is essentially narcissistic, but it seeks a world to love as it loves itself. — Norman O. Brown

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

It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result. — Barbara Ehrenreich

You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career. — Howard Stern

I was not insecure. I was a perfectly normal combination of arrogant and narcissistic. — Dani Alexander

You are not broken and in need of fixing. You are wounded and in need of healing. — Danu Morrigan

I used to play a narcissistic conservative pundit. Now I'm just a narcissist. — Stephen Colbert