Quotes About Self-absorption

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you get up in the morning until you go out at night. You, you. You get really sick of yourself.

We were just touring Europe, and I noticed that we'd go to all these beautiful places, and everyone's just taking a picture of themselves. I don't understand that at all. And I feel like that extends to music. I think we've lost the script a little bit.

The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.

Inside the house she took off both her hat and her wig—a woman's wig, this time—and sat down in front of the vanity table to massage her scalp. In the mirror she seemed thinner. Was she already down to only one point two chins? Another face appeared in the mirror. "Counting your chins?" "Me? How dare you accuse me of such rampant self-absorption!

Why are you making a joke out of this?" she asks. "Because it's stupid, Nik. There's not even room in my day to think about someone else.

Insanity is a state of profound self-absorption.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.

But it's pretty clear to me by now that Sarah just likes to talk to hear the sound of her own voice, so I let her go on, since she has no one else to talk to

It's about time we stop mistaking self-knowledge for self-absorption—and realize that nobody has a monopoly on selfishness.

There are always people who aren't human, who think the only thing in the world that matters is themselves.

External discipline is the only road to happiness for those unfortunates whose self-absorption is too profound to be cured in any other way.

it is difficult to throw oneself into other people's petty concerns when one's own are very absorbing and interesting.

we can get so wrapped up in ourselves and in the tabernacles we want to build that we miss a fresh revelation of God's glory right before our eyes.

Overblown responsibility was a part of my preoccupation with myself.

Mirror, mirror on the truck Where she went, who gives a fuck?

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world.

Ma come spiegarle?... Non capirebbe egualmente che io son piena di me stessa, che mi occupo tutta. Anna non aspetta che dei figli per annientarsi in loro, come ha fatto sua madre, come fanno tutte le donne della famiglia.

In his failure Nhu had withdrawn so far into himself that in the end his face was a mask that no longer opened onto the real world.

Self is hateful.

A degree of narcissism is necessary, I suppose, to look in the pool to see your reflection. (Bono)

You are fascinated with yourself. You will say anything that occurs to you, but what I can't understand are the things that do occur to you. I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth.