The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps…

- Sam Vaknin

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

- Sam Vaknin

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

- Sam Vaknin

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 tor…

- Sam Vaknin

The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omni…

- Sam Vaknin