Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
Let me tell you what I just heard. Talk, talk, talk, I. Talk, talk, talk, I. Well, what about me?
My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.
For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.
Then they both smiled the exact same smile. Narcissism times two. Oh, get a room already.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.
The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor.
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.
To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism
I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.
Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.
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.
Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.
Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.
It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but then so can the tango - particularly if you're dancing alone.
America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn't create you to live for you. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to put aside your selfish ambition.
What will the world be quite overturned when you die?
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.
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
