Quotes About Self-absorption

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

Too paralyzed with self-absorption to protect the rest of life, we continue to tear down the natural environment, our species' irreplaceable and most precious heritage.

I am the self-consumer of my woes;

Sun worshippers? No. These people were here because they worshipped themselves.

I love all those dark, twisty shows, but my favorite show at the moment is 'Girls.' I love watching it. I've forgot how self-absorbed you can be at 21 years old or whatever.

She was so tightly wrapped in herself, her own misery and dark thoughts, that she was blind to everything else. Especially him.

I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.

April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.

His growing lack of concern for the others hardly surprised him, whereas previously he had prided himself on being considerate.

The Beats, like their successors in the Sixties, have often been described as 'idealists'. But fantasies of total gratification are not the product of idealism. They arise from a narcissism that, finding the world unequal to its desires, retreats into a realm of heedless self-absorption. Modesty, convention, and self-restraint then appear as the enemies rather than as the allies of humanity. In this sense, the Beat generation marks a step away from civilization.

When you are a crank, you put yourself on the top of the list of people you make miserable.

Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.

When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe.

I'll tell you what's brought it on – the behaviour of a man who has acted like a selfish bastard. You've thought of nobody but yourself, Louis, all the time … self, self, self.

Unable to transcend ego, to be naked inside and out, or being left alone because passion is burnt out and when it is burnt out it is over in an instant, the men use violence - capture, murder, violent revenge. Alienated because of their self-absorption, their thoughts of women are saturated with violence; they dream of violence when they think of the woman they want.

They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.

They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate

Being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain . . . and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities.

I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.

The word narcissism in its most fundamental sense means a tendency to self-worship. For the narcissist, his excessive self-absorption is a protection against unconscious but powerful feelings of inadequacy. Seduced by the narcissist's camouflage of outer charm or confidence, you are eventually drawn into the nightmare side of this relationship. By the time you realize that something is wrong, the cumulative effects can range from bruised self-esteem to severe depression.

It is easy to slip into self-absorption and it is equally fatal. When one becomes absorbed in himself, in his health, in his personal problems, or in the small details of daily living, he is, at the same time, losing interest in other people; worse, he is losing his ties to life. From that it is an easy step to losing interest in the world and in life itself. That is the beginning of death.

His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.

This Narcissus of ours Can't see his face in the mirror Because he has become the mirror.

A broad-minded person always appreciates the positive outlook, the narrow-minded people often admire only own outfits and looks.