People often mistake depression for emotion. And this is wrong. True, depression is a big component in a narcissist's emotional make-up. But it mostly has to do with the absence of narcissistic supply. It mostly has to do with nostalgia to more plentiful days, full of adoration and attention and applause.
Some narcissists even cry - but they cry exclusively for themselves and for their lost paradise.
And they do so conspicuously and publicly - to attract attention. The narcissist is a human pendulum hanging by the thread of the void that is his False Self. He swings between brutal and vicious abrasiveness - and mellifluous, saccharine sentimentality. It is all a simulacrum. Enough to fool the casual observer.