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Quotes About Self-absorbed

In a spiritual sense, the objects of our attachments and addictions become idols. We give them our time, energy, and attention whether we want to or not, even—and often especially—when we are struggling to rid ourselves of them. We want to be free, compassionate, and happy, but in the face of our attachments we are clinging, grasping, and fearfully self-absorbed.
~ Gerald G. May
And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.
~ Molly Ringwald
I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think.
~ Marjane Satrapi
The only thing he thinks of is himself, Stoner pointed out. In his deepest heart he does not regard anyone else as truly human; no one except himself. He is the center of his world. Everything and everyone else revolves around him.
~ Ben Bova
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
What really hits Trump is when you prove to people that Trump isn't for you - that Trump is about Trump.
~ Rick Wilson
the way the characters are depicted as almost hermetically sealed off from the world around them is an image of isolation and dissociation that epitomizes the self-absorbed "Me" generation of the 1990s' (Innes 2002: 431); even
~ Graham Saunders
Facebook'?" he asks. "Seriously? Now we're using that piece of self-absorbed crap as an investigative tool? What's wrong with your generation?" "Nothing that we can't fix once your generation is gone.
~ Gregg Olsen
I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that's dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.
~ David Nicholls
at times the city can feel self-satisfied, even solipsistic
~ Barry Eisler
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.
~ Jane Green
She was of an age that took other people's lives to be pretty fictions, useful merely for adorning the invisible membrane that contained her own singular and glorious existence.
~ Gregory Maguire
The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.
~ Chuck Klosterman
I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.
~ Diablo Cody
Collectively, they are the indolent children of inherited wealth, removed by generations from those who last made the fortune—the Greatest Generation—and too self-absorbed and selfish to consider what they in turn might leave for the next generations.
~ Stuart Stevens
Vain people can't bear to be crossed. They are the center of their world, and if circumstances don't allow the world to meet their needs, then the circumstances need to be changed. Their actions appear proportionate to them because any situation where their needs aren't being met is an affront.
~ Judith Flanders
This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.
~ Julia Quinn
Actors are inherently self-centered.
~ Bryan Cranston
An egoist is someone who doesn't think about me...
~ Fabrice
The primary occupational hazard of blogging is this: it's easier when you yourself take on some of the traits of insanity. It's a job that requires the doer to be selfish, self-absorbed, and superficial.
~ Ryan Holiday
He says his parents were "really uptight and not very affectionate," and, consequently, young J grew up somewhat aloof and self-absorbed. All the furniture in his room was arranged to create a wall around his bed, and there he'd lie for hours, listening to music.
~ Michael Azerrad
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.
~ Stephen Schwartz
It's hopeless, Honey told herself. The cocky telephone hustler would go home to Texas unchanged, as vapid and self-absorbed as ever. That a dolt so charmless could attract both a wife and a girlfriend was as dispiriting as it was inexplicable.
~ Carl Hiaasen