{"quotes":[{"text":"Narcissistic personality disorder is named for Narcissus, from Greek mythology, who fell in love with his own reflection. Freud used the term to describe persons who were self-absorbed, and psychoanalysts have focused on the narcissist's need to bolster his or her self-esteem through grandiose fantasy, exaggerated ambition, exhibitionism, and feelings of entitlement.","author":"Donald W. Black","tags":["entitlement","fantasy","grandiose","greek-mythology","mythology","narcissism","narcissist","narcissistic","narcissus","personality-disorder","self-absorbed"],"id":11842,"author_id":"Donald+W.+Black"},{"text":"To love others you've got to love yourself, but I love myself too much I've got no place for others.","author":"Ahmed Mostafa","tags":["lonely","lonesome","loving-oneself","loving-yourself","narcissism","narcissistic"],"id":14468,"author_id":"Ahmed+Mostafa"},{"text":"The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I’ll be left with is myself, and that alone is frightening. But what I’ve failed to consider is that I have to expend so much of myself living for myself that in the end I’m really left with very little of myself, and that is unimaginably frightening.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["consequences","ego","egocentric","fear","fearful","frightened","frightening","greed","narcissism","narcissistic","outcomes","self-centered","self-centeredness","selfish","selfishness"],"id":35238,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"If I can’t quite figure out what an ego is, all I have to do is look for the thing that’s killing itself in the very act of feeding itself.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["destructive","ego","egocentric","feed","feeding","gorge","gorging","greed","greedy","kill","killing","murder","narcissism","narcissistic","self","self-centered","self-destruct","self-destruction","self-mutilation","suicidal","suicide"],"id":69534,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["arrogance","arrogant","christian","christianity","difficult","ego","egotistical","god","narcissism","narcissistic","pride","prideful","proud","redeem-salvage","redemption","release","rescue","rescue-mission","rescuing","retrieval","retrieve","salvation","self-centered","selfish"],"id":76171,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["cheap","cost","deceit","deception","ego","egocentric","fake","fooling","foolish","fraudulence","fraudulent","gift","gifts","give","giving","greed","greedy","life","mislead","misled","narcissism","narcissistic","people","pretend","pretending","price","self","self-centered"],"id":79169,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"This conversation with myself has an overwhelming aroma of narcissism.","author":"Tawny Lara","tags":["experience","narcissism","narcissistic","narcissists","negative","negative-attitude","negative-people","pink-hair","positive-outlook","positive","positive-thinking","positive-thoughts","write-a-book","writer","writer-life","writers","writers-world"],"id":117386,"author_id":"Tawny+Lara"},{"text":"What are you talking about?' Narcissus demanded. 'I am amazing. Everyone knows this.'Amazing at pure suck,' Leo said. 'If I was as suck as you, I'd drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["humor","narcissistic","narcissus","suck"],"id":155718,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bankrupt","bankruptcy","blind","blindness","debt","demand","demanding","denial","ego","egocentric","entitlement","imaginary","imagine","narcissism","narcissistic","owe","owed","real","selfish","selfishness"],"id":177021,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","arrogance","arrogant","axiom","axioms","big-headed","big-headedness","bighead","boastful","boastfulness","cockiness","cocky","conceit","countries","country","deep","dictum","dictums","egoism","egotism","epigram","epigrams","funny","gnome","gnomes","humor","humorous","humour","insightful","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","narcissism","narcissistic","patriot","patriotism","patriots","philosopher","pride","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","rodomontade","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","self-absorbed","self-absorption","self-admiration","self-centered","self-centeredness","self-love","self-obsession","self-regard","south-africa","south-african","swagger","thought-provoking","thoughtful","vanity"],"id":204264,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}