Quotes About Self-absorption

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves:

Narcissism is a strong word, but it is narcissistic to expect everybody in a culture to reflect your own image back at you.

But both the narcissist and his partner do not really consider each other. Trapped in the moves of an all-consuming dance macabre, they follow the motions morbidly - semiconscious, desensitized, exhausted, and concerned only with survival.

Even when he seems to be interacting with someone else, the narcissist is actually engaged in a self-referential discourse. To the narcissist, all other people are cardboard cutouts, two-dimensional animated cartoon characters, or symbols. They exist only in his inner universe. He is startled when they deviate from the script and prove to be complex and autonomous.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

Suffering turns us into egotists, for it absorbs us completely: it is later, in the form of memory, that it teaches us compassion.

El sufrimiento nos hace egoístas porque nos absorbe por entero: sólo más tarde, en forma de recuerdo, nos enseña la compasión.

His only cause, ultimately, was himself.

As a rule Uncle Giles took not the slightest interest in anyone or anything except himself and his own affairs—indeed was by this time all but incapable of absorbing even the smallest particle of information about others, unless such information had some immediate bearing on his own case.

All those wasted and squandered years when I did nothing but go around looking inside myself until I ended up alone even though I was surrounded by people. But I paid attention only to what was happenstance about them - not their true selves.

An inability to encourage someone else is usually rooted in an absorption with self that is blind to the needs or gifts of others, or a pride that cannot bring itself to praise God's grace in them.

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

This conversation with myself has an overwhelming aroma of narcissism.

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

The issue is becoming so absorbed in positioning ourselves ahead of everyone else that life becomes nothing more than an endless strategy.

Look around you. Look closely at your neighbors and the strangers you pass in the streets. Are they starting to morph into fellaheen? Is social media a global electronic machine - a cyber factory - for generating fellaheen ... people who have lost all sense of history and are focused entirely on themselves? Dante called them 'Ignavi' and said they were the most abject people of all.

Daca vreun om s-a devorat pe el insusi,acela sunt eu.

People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.

There is one kind of religion in which the more devoted a man is, the fewer proselytes he makes: the worship of himself.

And now, in love with himself, and so shut out from the salvation of love to another, he was specially in danger of falling in love with any woman's admiration.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.