Quotes About Self-absorption

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

And worse, you're not doing anything interesting anymore. You're not seeing anything, saying anything. The weird paradox is that you think you're at the center of things, and that makes your opinions more valuable, but you yourself are becoming less vibrant. I bet you haven't done anything offscreen in months. Have you?

Maybe that's how the world was now, thought Dan. Everyone was so wrapped up in his or her own little world that no one ever really saw anything anymore.

People often discounted narcissism as relatively harmless because the term sometimes conjured the clichéd image of a vain man staring longingly at his reflection in a pool of water or a mirror.

Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once having loved something more than yourself.

Supongo que ser tímido significa básicamente estar absorbido por uno mismo hasta el punto de que se hace difícil estar rodeado de otras personas

What terms might be used to describe such a solipsistic, self-consumed, bottomless emotional vacuum and sponge as she now appeared to herself to be?

Supongo que ser tímido significa básicamente estar absorbido por uno mismo hasta el punto en que estar rodeado de otras personas se hace realmente difícil

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

Self-obsession, that treacherous time waster.

In a dying culture, narcissism appears to embody—in the guise of personal "growth" and "awareness"—the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment. The custodians of culture hope, at bottom, merely to survive its collapse.

When desperately concerned with our own affairs, it is not easy for any one of us to be interested in a neighbor's new stereo.

I don't have anything to nourish me: I eat myself

And how many stories has she missed all these years while she's been so wrapped up in her own?

Suis-je donc un Narcisse ? Pas même : trop soucieux de séduire, je m'oublie. Après tout, ça ne m'amuse pas tant de faire des pâtés, des gribouillages, mes besoins naturels : pour leur donner du prix à mes yeux, il faut qu'au moins une grande personne s'extasie sur mes produits.

What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.

And the artists were the worst, the painters and the writers, because they believed they were living for art when they were really feeding their narcissism.

Like many isolated people, they were wrapped up in themselves and not too interested in the world outside.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

If his young companions have their own special delusions—D.L.'s that cynicism and naïveté are mutually exclusive, Sternberg's that a body is a prison and not a shelter—Mark's is that he's the only person in the world who feels like the only person in the world. It's a solipsistic delusion.

I am self-centred. I just adore myself.

He flowed deeper and deeper into himself, wrapped in the comforting strength of hate.

When you are young you are too busy with yourself - so Caroline thought - you haven't time for ordinary little things

The whole selfie generation - it's just not my vibe.