Deep, Inspirational Quotes about "Narcissism"

"There's something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility, like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends."

--- Alan Palomo

#Fun #Ideas #Night

"Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?"

--- Alexander McCall Smith

#Eye #People #Looks

"Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history."

--- Allen Tate

#Facts #Connected #Art

"Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people."

--- Andre Dubus

#Important #People #Looks

"Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism."

--- Andrea Hirata

#Writing #Fighting #Stupidity

"We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle."

--- Andrew Cohen

#Thinking #Problem #Deals

"Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these notes intensify the inner life, which, left unexpressed, slips through your fingers. If only I could find a better kind of journal, humbler, one that would preserve the same thoughts, the same flesh of life, which is worth saving."

--- Anna Kamienska

#Ifs #Hands #Writing

"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."

--- Anne Lamott

#I Can #Self #Middle

"I am in love with you', I responded. He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh. 'Of course you are,' he replied. 'I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.' It was my turn to laugh."

--- Anne Rice

#Facts #Self #Courses

"Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism."

--- Ayelet Waldman

#Impulsive #Nihilism #Narcissism

"I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, 'A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.'"

--- Ayelet Waldman

#Giving #Writing #Children

"Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave."

--- Wilson Mizner

#Done #Ego #Humble

"Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out."

--- Barbara Brown Taylor

#Thinking #Children #Purpose

"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

--- Benjamin Franklin

#No Love #Cynical Love #Temporary Insanity

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

--- Bernard Goldberg

#Kind #New York #Journalist

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

--- Will Wright

#Designer #Player #Games

"These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you."

--- Bertrand Russell

#Giving #People #Firsts

"Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism."

--- Bill Ayers

#Writing #Memoir #Excited

"One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it."

--- Bill Ayers

#Writing #Courses #World

"The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism."

--- Bill Vaughan

#Humans #Men #Lines

"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love."

--- Voltaire

#Self #Should #Anorexia

"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."

--- Bradford Cox

#Guy #Psychiatrist #Gay

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

--- Velda Johnston

#Muscles #Certain #Actors

"When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose."

--- Brené Brown

#Looks #Ordinary #Feelings

"Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as well. We know that in order to progress we must stretch for something just out of reach--if only for a life that will be more compassionate and decent than the cruelty, paranoia, greed, narrow corporatism, or narcissism we mostly indulge in and find such ample justification for. And so we dream."

--- Breyten Breytenbach

#Ifs #Knows #Wells

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

--- Tullian Tchividjian

#Done #Focus #Christian

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