Quotes About Self-absorption

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This is an empire called "narcissism.

People so staunch and true, they're fixated, Shining with self-regard like polished stones. And their whole life spent admiring themselves For their own long-suffering. Licking their wounds And flashing them around like decorations. I hate it, I always hated it, and I am A part of it myself.

People shouldn't take my lack of interest in what they're saying personally. I don't really care about what I'm saying most of the time.

Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.

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

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Perhaps narcissism is best defined as a need to look on other people as mirrored surfaces who satisfy us only when they reflect back a loving or admiring image of ourselves. When we look into another's eyes, in other words, we are not looking to see who they are, but how we are reflected in their eyes. By this definition, which of us can honestly disown our share of narcissism?

Television is all right, I've nothing against it, but I don't like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and toward nothing but its own glassy self.

We are living in the Selfie Society of Me.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals Himself.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals

One thing a narcissist doesn't like is to look in a mirror that is in any way genuinely reflective of what's on the other side of it.

How hungrily we read about ourselves!

He's a narcissist, and I wonder what it says about me that I'm willing to sleep with a man whose eyes constantly look past me in search of his own reflection.

It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

We're understandably worried that staring at screens all day, and blogging about our breakfasts, is turning America into a nation of narcissists. But the opposite might be true.

This may sound a little harsh, but I don't care about my career. Really, I don't like actors who are always planning what they're going to do next or always worrying about doing something that will go against the image they've created. To me, that's almost like an attack of narcissism.