Quotes About Self-absorption

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

As I go about I see a lot of "coffin" men. They have room for themselves and nobody else.

Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports.

We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH (Name of chapter)

The simian numbskull fiddles with his video game while his sister bumpkinette thumb-twiddles a photo of her latest pedicure onto her Facebook page.

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ recital to anyone who will listen.

I'd like to say I'm not self-absorbed compared to others, but that's hard to say since I'm far too self-absorbed to pry into others' self-absorption.

What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.

What gives journalism its authenticity and vitality is the tension between the subject's blind self absorption and the journalist's skepticism. Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

One thing Mauser leaned over the years was that students, almost to a one, viewed the world from the inside of a fishbowl. They had the bigger points covered—genocide in Kamchatka, illegal whale hunting in the Arctic Circle, shit like the. But if you asked about anything relevant to their lives they'd look at you with glazed eyes and go right back to sipping their double-mocha lattes.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Ethan looked at her with loathing. She was no longer the listless creature who had lived at his side in a state of sullen self-absorption, but a mysterious alien presence, an evil energy secreted from the long years of silent brooding.

With no objective support whatsoever, Narcissistic Legends see themselves as more talented and intelligent than other people. They are expert in finding small ponds that will let them be big fish, and extorting Narcissistic supplies from people whose need to be needed is as great as their vampiric need to be adored.

Considering themselves is what Narcissists do best. The trait they most conspicuously lack is concern for the needs, thoughts, and feelings of other people.

The easiest way to get drained is to take Narcissists' inconsideration personally, to get upset over what they must be thinking of you to treat you the way they do. The most important thing to remember is that Narcissistic vampires are not thinking of you at all.

Narcissists are neither carefree nor innocent. They have learned to play the power game, to seduce and to manipulate. They are always thinking about how people see and respond to them. And they must stay in control because loss of control evokes their fear of insanity.