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.
Quotes about narcissism (16 Quotes)
It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.
Because that's what narcissism is all about looking in the mirror everyday and thinking 'Damn, I'd like to shag myself.'
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
more of what I know about me. I think you live more and become more familiar with the workings of your own mind -- the darkness in it, the narcissism -- and the desperate attempts the ego makes to cover that up.
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
True self-love is the opposite of narcissism, where one cant take their eyes off themselves and feels superior to another. Self-love is wholeness. It allows one to say, I am perfect just the way I am and so are you.
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.
I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.
Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a human being presents a more difficult problem. The rich might wish to experience feelings of affection, but it is almost impossible to chip away the enamel of their narcissism. They take up all the space in all the mirrors in the house. Their children, who represent the most present and therefore the most annoying claim on their attention, usually receive the brunt of their irritation.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
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.
The Culture of Narcissism - American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
The paradox about narcissism is that we all have this streak of egotism. Eighty percent of people think they're better than average.
I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.