Quotes About Self-obsession

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves?

Soy demasiado esclavo de mis propias obsesiones y de mi propia fascinación.

There's nothing more unattractive than a vain man

a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

Abelard's love for Héloïse was actually a form of self-love, even self-obsession. "He is a man who does not know his limitations," Bernard confided to a friend. "Nothing in heaven or on earth is hidden from him, except himself.

Men that are great lovers of themselves, waste the public.

I search my name on Tumblr more than I Google myself, and I Google myself every day.

Instead of wondering at this result of misery in Mr. Casaubon, I think it quite ordinary. Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. And

His only cause, ultimately, was himself.

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

Excesul de subiectivism, la oamenii care n-au ajuns la credinta, nu poate duce decat la megalomanie sau autodenigrare. Cand te preocupi mult de tine insuti, nu poti ajunge decat sa te iubesti sau sa te urasti dincolo de orice masura. In amandoua felurile te lichidezi inainte de vreme. Nu e subiectivism acela ce nu te face Dumnezeu sau Satana.

The dandy ought to aspire uninterruptedly to be sublime. He should live and sleep before a mirror.

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.

This is an empire called "narcissism.

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

On the other hand, you're a human--you should understand self-obsession.

I actually feel quite self-indulgent at the moment, telling you all about me, me, me. (...) On the other hand, you're a human -you should understand self obsession.

I actually feel quite self-indulgent at the moment, telling you all about me, me, me. My travels, what I saw in '42. On the other hand, you're a human — you should understand self-obsession.

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

Like all truly selfish people, Kliemann believed the minutiae of his life must be fascinating to all.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

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

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