Quotes About Self-obsession

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!

A narcissist is someone better looking than you.

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.

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.

I sometimes will be very shut off from everybody. I can be very pettish and sometimes not available when you need me. At those times, I'm very selfish and worrying about my own problems.

He who is in love with himself has no rivals.

I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love.

Geoffrey [Boycott] is the only fellow I've ever met who fell in love with himself at a young age and has remained faithful ever since

Insanity is a state of profound self-absorption.

So much of what is broadly called wellness now involves an expensive kind of burrowing into our selves, wobbling on the plank between self-care and self-obsession. Many get lost in the labyrinth of internal observation, an endless cycle of maintenance of muscle, mood and self-medication.

I don't care what you think as long as it's about me.

My experience as a police inspector has taught me that many people are able to regard themselves with inordinate fondness, no matter what heinous crimes they have committed. They care only about how they look to others, and whether they can get away with it.

I love narcissists-even more than they love themselves. You don't have to buoy them up. They are their own razzle-dazzle show and you are the blessed, favored with a front-row seat.

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

Diana' What if she was here to show us a third way? Between pleasure-seeking and piety, between self-obsession and self-denial; a life which is lived to its fullest, with the fact that we are human animals and want to have fun seamlessly blending into the fact that what diminishes others, be it homelessness, illness or war, diminishes all of us?

I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

The fact is, for years, I had been trapped in a certain narcissism and a desire to have a certain body and look sexy.

La preoccupazione per la propria immagine, è questa la fatale immaturità dell'uomo. È così difficile essere indifferenti alla propria immagine. Una tale indifferenza è al di sopra delle forze umane. L'uomo ci arriva solo dopo la morte. E neanche subito. Solo molto tempo dopo la morte.

Vanity is man's love affair with himself.

Some girls are so vain!