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Quotes About Self-absorbed

EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
~ Ambrose Bierce
You are too full of your own hopes to hold anyone else's.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You remind us that we're selfish bastards. You're not one of us, that way.
~ E. Lockhart
An empty man is full of himself.
~ Edward Abbey
But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.
~ Sarah Dessen
If you haven't admired anybody in your whole life, you are the best candidate to be the world's greatest megalomaniac!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A person who is self-centric has a propensity to put own appearance picture with almost everything & everyone to get the praise merely for his/her own face from the people.
~ Anuj Somany
The more a person is self-centric, the more s/he is toxic and the more people around her/her are only negative.
~ Anuj Somany
A lot of people just feel really impacted and inspired by drag in ways that I don't think we, as self-absorbed drag queens, think about that often.
~ Jinkx Monsoon
The funny thing about the people I don't like - they're very self-centered.
~ Brendon Urie
I'm too conceited for therapy.
~ Glen Duncan
Parents today are self-absorbed. They don't care what anyone thinks or even what their children think. There is less focus on discipline, integrity, boundaries, fairness, honesty and spirituality.
~ GloZell
Father always says I'm conceited, but I'm not, I'm merely vain!
~ Anne Frank
We're too busy being special.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Go and rot, you worthless bastard. (Artemis) I may be a worthless bastard, but better that than a frigid whore who sacrificed the only man to ever love her because she was too self-absorbed to save him. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sebastien was here for revenge, though he could pretty it up with Justice's blindfold if he cared to play the hypocrite. The self-absorbed machinations of Duke Richard and Governor Penfold had led to the destruction of a friend. Sebastien…was not always of a forgiving nature.
~ Elizabeth Bear
he had been drawn to psychiatry, in spite of his recognition that those who became psychiatrists did so as a result of their own messed-up childhoods, always looking, looking, looking for the answer in the writings of Freud, Horney, Reich, of why they were the anal, narcissistic, self-absorbed freaks that they were, and yet at the same time denying it, of course
~ Elizabeth Strout
he had been drawn to psychiatry, in spite of his recognition that those who became psychiatrists did so as a result of their own messed-up childhoods, always looking, looking, looking for the answer in the writings of Freud, Horney, Reich, of why they were the anal, narcissistic, self-absorbed freaks that they were, and yet at the same time denying it, of course—what bullshit he had witnessed among his colleagues, his professors!
~ Elizabeth Strout
why they were the anal, narcissistic, self-absorbed freaks that they were
~ Elizabeth Strout
straightforward and selfish
~ B.M. Bower
We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
~ Adam Hamilton
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.
~ John Ruskin
It is, I think, the rarest of leisure, hard work mixed with hard pleasure, to refine one's time of deep thought or light regard into the utterly self-absorbed and equally and abundantly outward-seeking shape of the personal essay -- a story comprised of found fact, of analyzed emotion, of fictive memory.
~ Barry Lopez
We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.
~ Jill Soloway