Sam Vaknin famous quotes

Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.
-- Sam Vaknin

#Hate #Omnipotence #Narcissist

The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict.
-- Sam Vaknin

#Devastation #Emotion #Narcissist

The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of the actor or singer who genuinely feels the part he is performing.
-- Sam Vaknin

#Ideas #Empathy #Feelings

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

#People #Narcissistic #Shells

The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just there. They torment their spouse by being unempathic, but they don't beat her or kill her. They bully coworkers, but they don't burn the office. They are not dramatic. They are pernicious. Most psychopaths are subtle. They are more like poison than a knife, and they are more like slow-working poison than cyanide.
-- Sam Vaknin

#Knives #Office #Bully

Observe the world around you everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.

I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.

I know you love her. I’ve never seen you act this crazed in your life. I get that. But Nan hates her. If you love Blaire then protect her from the venom that is dripping from your sister’s fangs. Or I will.

I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.

Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more...

A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.

But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses? During the age of Christ, of his apostles, and their first disciples, the doctrine which they preached was confirmed by innumerable prodigies. The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

Love is not a contract between two narcissists.

There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.