Quotes About Self-obsession

They also talked about themselves, each one saying how beautiful she thought she was. Aunt Sponge had a long-handled mirror on her lap, and she kept picking it up and gazing at her own hideous face.

beautiful she thought she was. Aunt Sponge had a long-handled mirror on her lap, and she kept picking it up and gazing at her own hideous face. 'I look and smell,' Aunt Sponge declared, 'as lovely as a rose! Just feast your eyes upon my face, observe my shapely nose! Behold my heavenly silky locks! And if I take off both my socks You'll see my dainty toes.' 'But don't forget,' Aunt Spiker cried, 'how much your tummy shows!

They are frauds. We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it, nor do we have any choice but to bear it. Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves. Not always, but at least occasionally, it can break our obsession with the self.

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.

The idol of yourself is the mother of all idols.

But Trump responded to the coronavirus with the same belligerent dishonesty that characterized his treatment of Mueller and impeachment. In the critical early days of the pandemic, when it might have been contained, he behaved with characteristic self-obsession, preferring to hound his enemies on Twitter rather than to learn the facts about the virus and protect the American people.

He had room in his heart only for two idols--his wife and himself--he doted on both, and adored one

Personally, I think getting obsessed with yourself is the most dangerous thing.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

human beings are very narcissistic, they like to see themselves everywhere and be the foil for the rest of creation' (I, iv).

Not the free individual but the lost individual; not Independence but isolation; not self-discovery but self-obsession; not the conquer but to be conquered; these are major states of mind in contemporary imaginative literature.

Self absorption is anti-seductive; it is a sign of insecurity.

We're all supposed to be open about mental health these days. Very sympathetic. But the reality of the bloody thing, the person's self-obsession, the relentless movement, like they're constantly wired, the tedious repetition of paranoid thoughts, that hasn't changed. You can't know just how exhausting severe depression can be for other people until you've experienced it.

I'm not the easiest person in the world to be partners with. I'm never home. I'm constantly running around the world. I can be impatient. I have a temper. I'm, like, self-obsessed. I'm irritable, self-absorbed.

narcissistic personality disorder. These people really feel that they are the center of the universe (although they aren't centered themselves) and that others exist to serve them. Instead of mirroring others, they insatiably seek mirroring from them. Instead of seeing others, they seek to be seen by them.

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

Aren't you interested in anything except yourself? Not much.

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

And I'd figured out that no one cared, not really. No one gave a shit about anything but himself. People were addled by their own chatter, their own personal litany of fears and insecurities, self-loathing, and selfish desires. Hardly anyone could hear over that. I was invisible if I wanted to be.

a fully flowered narcissist.

Fear was a solipsist, a narcissist, blind to everything except itself.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

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

I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.