Quotes About Self-centered

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

Many people think of a narcissist as someone who perhaps names hotels after himself or always wants to be in the spotlight—maybe a character on reality TV.

There is no life as empty as the self-centered life. There is no life as centered as the self-empty life.

In my last relationship I realized that my partner was self-centered, self-serving, arrogant, ignorant, unfaithful, hypercritical, abusive, an under-achiever, and an alcoholic. I was devastated when he broke up with me.

If every story someone tells you revolves around how great they are and how they're always the victim in situations they're most likely full of sh...

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.

Personal Importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

As a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I have to fight against this force, this current within me that, more often than not, wants to avoid serious issues and please myself, buy things for myself, feed myself, entertain myself, and all of that.

leaders who think the story of life is all about them may achieve temporary successes but are usually remembered in history's narrative as a villain.

If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.

This "gentle man" style of abuser tends to be highly self-centered and demanding of emotional catering. He may not be the man who has a fit because dinner is late but rather erupts because of some way his partner failed to sacrifice her own needs or interests to keep him content. He plays up how fragile he is to divert attention from the swath of destruction he leaves behind him.

The salient point about remorse, however, is that it matters little whether it is genuine or not. Clients who get very sorry after acts of abuse change at about the same rate as the ones who don't. The most regretful are sometimes the most self-centered, lamenting above all the injury they've done to their own self-image. They feel ashamed of having behaved like cruel dictators and want to revert quickly to the role of benign dictators, as if that somehow makes them much better people.

He had a certain almost obsequious charm. He liked talking about himself, and did not ask many questions of her. She noticed the imbalance but did not mind.

Like all bores, he preferred his own thoughts and opinions to the exclusion of others

This generosity of spirit—this caring about others and about the proposition that we are all created equal—is the single most effective antidote to the self-centered moral numbness that allows Fascism to thrive.

This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

pitch. This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

Health and spirits can only belong unalloyed to the selfish man—the

I hate when people think they are the best thing ever. Try being humble and not all about yourself.

The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are increasingly preoccupied themselves.

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.