Quotes About Self-absorption

difficult to make a real confession and show what happened when you're such an egomaniac all you can do is take off on big paragraphs about minor details about yourself and the big sole details about others go sitting and waiting around)

It's bizarre to have both a super-connected and disconnected world. Like, you can use Twitter in the most narcissistic way. Do people really need to know that I'm drinking a latte right now? It's so indulgent.

One of the beautiful things about Tyler Durden in 'Fight Club' is that he seems to understand the implicit vanity and self-absorption that comes with the desire to improve oneself.

There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

Every time the woman turned her head, it was like she was posing for a picture with an Instagram setting that filtered out humility.

Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh, they make you think; the first time you met, they probably charmed the pants off of you - perhaps even literally. The odds are also that that spell didn't last.

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

I didn't notice my parents' split because I was off doing my own thing. I was very naughty.

There is no one so lonely than a man who loves only himself.

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

When you're an actor, you can be hindered by your own narcissism.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

I've always been a narcissist.

You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to live it the way I want.

You don't want to end up living a horribly narcissistic life, do you? And everything about fame and celebrity sort of suggests that kind of fate.

Although narcissists can appear charismatic, that charm is always and only exercised in the service of their own greater glory. They disregard the feelings and the interests of others and are often skilled at manipulating them into providing what the narcissist wants right here, right now. From Reading Crimes by DR TONY HILL

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She'll be an excellent novelist: a monster of self-absorption.

Man is a true Narcissus; he delights to see his own image everywhere; and he spreads himself underneath the universe, like the amalgam behind the glass.

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.

A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.