50+ Narcissistic Father Quotes

Narcissistic father quotes for the bad toxic selfish fathers around the world that are real threats to their kids and family members. A father is a person who takes care of all of his family but when a father is narcissistic then a family will not be in line.

Narcissistic Father Quotes

• “Intuition — once you have had a narcissist in your life, you must develop your intuition and learn to listen to it and act accordingly.” — Tracy Malone
• “But that’s the thing about narcissists. They can try to fool you, with all their heart, but in the end, they’re just fooling themselves.” — Ellie Fox
• “Since narcissists deep down feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world’s fault.” — M. Scott Peck
• “Narcissists will destroy your life, erode your self-esteem, and do it with such stealth as to make you feel that you are the one that’s letting them down.” — Unknown
• “Narcissistic love is riding on the rollercoaster of disaster filled with a heart full of tears.” — Sheree Griffin
• “You don’t attract narcissists because something is wrong with you. You attract narcissists because so much is right with you.” — Unknown
• “A narcissist paints a picture of themselves as being the victim or innocent in all aspects. They will be offended by the truth. But what is done in the dark will come to light. Time has a way of showing people’s true colors.” — Karla Grimes
• “A narcissist doesn’t break your heart, they break your spirit. That’s why it takes so long to heal.” — Unknown
• “A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all — but loving only himself.” — Criss Jami
• “Narcissist parents want total control. Take back your control. If possible, don’t accept any money, favor, items or anything from them.” – Tina Fuller
• “The hateful and stinging words of a narcissistic parent can linger in the mind of an adult child long after the adult has left home.” – Shannon Thomas
• “Narcissist parents do not know their children; they aren’t interested in what they have to say unless it affects them.” – Tina Fuller
• “A narcissistic parent will provoke an independent child to anger in order to feel superior and prove the child’s flaws.” – Shannon Thomas
• “A narcissist parent is easily frustrated by a healthy independent child that they can’t control through parental emotional manipulation.” – Shannon Thomas
• “If we, as mothers, are not careful, we can begin to find our identity in our children and their behavior.” – Sue Detweiler
• “In the narcissistic parent’s eyes, they do no wrong nor do they feel they should be held accountable for the bad and wrong things that they have done.” – Katherine Childress
• “Children of narcissists learn that love is abuse. The narcissist teaches them that if someone displeases you, it is okay to harm them and call it love.” ― M. Wakefield

Toxic Narcissistic Father Quotes 

• “A real man takes care of his kids no matter what the relationship is with the mother of his child.” – Unknown
• “Be more than a father, be a dad. Be more than a figure, be an example.” – Steve Maraboli
• “One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic.” — Robert Dallek
• “Getting angry when something about their behavior is challenged in the nicest way, is a typical reaction of a narcissistic parent.” ― Diana Macey
• “People tend to raise the child inside of them rather than the child in front of them.” –Joe Newman
• “Family is where you’re meant to be most free, don’t let blood chain you down.” – Michelle Meleen
• “Narcissistic parents will try to hurt you any way they can emotionally. Be aware that if they can’t get to you directly, they will try to hurt you through your children.” — Tina Fuller
• “Narcissist parents don’t care about their children’s feelings at all. Only their feelings matter.” -Kim Saeed
• “Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears.” – Henry Cloud
• “Some relationships are like broken glass. It’s better to leave them alone than hurt yourself trying to put them back together.” — Unknown
• “Realize that narcissists have an addiction disorder. They are strongly addicted to feeling significant. Like any addict, they will do whatever it takes to get this feeling often. That is why they are manipulative and future fakers. They promise change, but can’t deliver if it interferes with their addiction. That is why they secure backup supply.” — Shannon L. Alder
• “A narcissist will say ‘get over it,’ because your feelings are trivial to them. If it’s not about them, they’re not interested.” — Unknown
• “If you hold on to hurt and anger with a narcissist, the children will have no normal parent. The narcissistic parent will use them as puppets, lovebomb, and abandon them. You are their only hope.” — Tracy Malone
• “Relationships with narcissists are held in place by the hope of a ‘someday better,’ with little evidence to support it will ever arrive.” — Ramani Durvasula
• “Relationship with a narcissist in a nutshell: You will go from being the perfect love of their life to nothing you do is ever good enough. You will give everything and they will take it all and give you less and less in return. You will end up depleted, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and probably financially, and then get blamed for it.” — Bree Bonchay

Quotes About Father Who Is Narcissistic, Toxic, Selfish, and Bad

• “He broke promises, was abusive physically and mentally, never was around and caused my life to be a living hell.” – Anonymous
• “When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.” – Robert Bly
• “Real dads support their children without the law telling them they have to.” – Anonymous
• “Fathers, you are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link.” – Anonymous
• “You can always leave your childhood trauma your abusive mom or dad behind. Never be a victim.” – Anonymous
• “No matter how toxic your parents might be, you still have a need to deify them. Even if you understand, on one level, that your father was wrong to beat you, you may still believe he was justified. Intellectual understanding is not enough to convince your emotions that you were not responsible.” – Dr. Susan Forward
• “There’s nothing worse than a man that can be everything to everybody else except a father to their own child.” – Anonymous
• “Let’s get out of the habit of telling people, ‘That’s still your mom, your dad, or your sister.’ Toxic is toxic. You are allowed to walk away from people that constantly hurt you.” – Anonymous
• “I have a horrible time trying to figure out who I am, what I want, or what I need. I’m just beginning to figure it out. The hardest part is for me to like myself. Every time I try, I hear Daddy telling me what an awful kid I was.” – Dr. Susan Forward
• “Manipulation and control are favorite weapons abusive dads often use on their children for control.” – Anonymous
• “My dad had limitations. That’s what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.” – Gillian Flynn
• “And if your all-knowing parents think bad things about you, they must be true. If the mother is always saying, ‘You’re stupid,’ then you’re stupid. If the father is always saying, ‘You’re worthless,’ then you are. A child has no perspective from which to cast doubt on these assessments.” – Dr. Susan Forward
• “My earthly father was never there, he left my mother in despair. He spoke cruel words and did not care. He caused many tears and gave me much fear.” – Anonymous
• “Controllers, abusers, and manipulative people don’t question themselves. They don’t ask themselves if the problem is them. They always say the problem is someone else.” – Anonymous
• “It’s not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.” – Jonathan Schiller

Narcissistic Selfish Father Quotes

• “My father never did any of the things that my friends’ fathers did with them. We never tossed a football around or even watched games together. He would always say, ‘I don’t have time—maybe later, but he always had time to sit around and get drunk.” – Dr. Susan Forward
• “Unless a father accepts his faults he will most certainly doubt his virtues.” – Anonymous
• “Her father’s sporadic benevolence kept Kate yearning for his love, hoping for a turnaround. This hope kept her bonded to him long after she reached adulthood. As part of that bonding, she believed she had to keep secret the truth of her father’s behavior. A ‘good’ girl would never betray her family.” – Dr. Susan Forward
• “His father’s general mistrust of the future carried through to his thoughts on women. Like success, women would inevitably turn on you someday. He had a suspicion of women that bordered on paranoia. His son internalized these views as well.” – Dr. Susan Forward
• “Like many aggressors, Tracy’s father looked within the family, to his daughter, in an attempt to make up for whatever deprivation he experienced. This distorted use of a child to take care of an adult’s emotional needs can easily become sexualized if that adult cannot control his impulses.” – Dr. Susan Forward
• “You know, if fathers just did what they’re supposed to do, half of the junk that we face in the streets wouldn’t exist.” – Nathan Hayes
• “A child is not an adult, a child didn’t ask to be here. Any man that doesn’t take care of his responsibilities to his family and to his children, do me a favor stop calling yourself a man—at least have the decency to admit that you’re a boy. You don’t know what manhood is.” – Anonymous
• “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” – Sigmund Freud

Narcissistic Quotes About Father

• “I never had a speech from my father ‘this is what you must do or shouldn’t do’ but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn’t perfect.” – Adam Sandler
• “Sons aspire to either become their father or vie to be his exact opposite.” – Kilroy J. Oldster
• “They should love you, just as you are. Parents should love their kids, right?” “You’d think so.” – N.R. Walker
• “I felt my father’s presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension.” – Michael Landon
• “Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son.” – George Lucas

Bad Father Quotes From Daughter

• “When a father gives to his son, both laugh. When a son gives to his father, both cry.” – William Shakespeare
• “Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers, and fathering is a very important stage in their development.” – David M. Gottesman
• “Money doesn’t change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that’s all.” – Henry Ford
• “The fact that my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.” – Anthony Kiedis

What Is Narcissistic?

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5), narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a mental illness defined by a pattern of grandiosity, a persistent desire for adulation, and a lack of empathy. Some forms of narcissism can lead to abuse. (These are the telltale indications of narcissistic abuse that therapists want you to be aware of.)

The qualities of narcissism are persistent throughout relationships, settings, and social contexts, and they frequently emerge in early adulthood. About 5% of the population, or 1 in 200 people, are thought to satisfy the criteria for NPD. Men account for almost three-quarters of those with NPD.

Living With Narcissistic

According to Sander van der Linden, Ph.D., a social psychologist at the University of Cambridge who has done extensive research on narcissism, "narcissist" is most commonly used to describe a person who has an excessive interest in themselves and cares very little about other people's feelings or experiences. "Narcissists have a low sense of empathy," he says, making it difficult for them to pay attention to and relate to the ideas, feelings, and suffering of others.

When you put it that way, nearly everyone knows someone who is on the narcissistic extreme—a parent, sibling, friend, coworker, or romantic partner. And dealing with a narcissist can be excruciatingly uncomfortable.