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Quotes About Self-absorbed

Soy un turista americano, y por tanto 'ex officio' corpulento, rollizo, rubicundo, escandaloso, tosco, condescendiente, ensimismado, malcriado, preocupado por su aspecto, avergonzado, desesperante y codicioso.
~ David Foster Wallace
selfish. Maybe even cruel.
~ Linda Castillo
He is his mother's son: small-minded, self-absorbed, inward-thinking, a little bit racist, a little bit homophobic, a little bit misogynistic. All those things that don't matter when you're fourteen and in love, but start to sprout insidiously to the surface over the years it takes you to go from child to adult
~ Lisa Jewell
Gertrude is sweet and trusting and innocent in the ways of men, which is why she falls victim to such a selfish, self-absorbed putz.
~ Unknown
Children are so narcissistic: nothing about other people ever really occurs to them, least of all about their parents.
~ Zadie Smith
bloated with self-regard.
~ Unknown
There's nothing more tedious than people who like to talk about themselves.
~ Lisa Kleypas
In New Orleans the wilderness is sensed as very near, not the redemptive wilderness of the western imagination but something rank and old and malevolent, the idea of wilderness not as an escape from civilization and its discontents but as a mortal threat to a community precarious and colonial in its deepest aspect. The effect is lively and avaricious and intensely self-absorbed, a tone not uncommon in colonial cities, and the principal reason I find such cities invigorating.
~ Joan Didion
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
~ John Ruskin
In a world of self indulgence your attitude is going to be your biggest obstacle because you're only concerned with yourself!
~ Unknown
My self portrait shows a man that the wealth tortured, self-absorbed with his own self-forfeit.
~ Unknown
A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
~ William Shakespeare
She was a goddamn unicorn of selfishness.
~ Unknown
Some women never talk about other women; they are too busy talking about themselves.
~ Unknown
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
~ Unknown
A child can love a mother who has no capacity to love him in return, but in time, he realizes that he is pouring his affection not on fertile ground but on rock, where nothing can be grown. A child might then spend a life defined by settled anger or by self-pity. If the mother is not a monster, if she is instead emotionally disconnected and self-absorbed, and if she
~ Dean Koontz
Americans are so egocentric.
~ Mark Kurlansky
Irenée Calfat was a potter. She took hunks of clay and turned them into exquisite works. She'd pioneered a new way to glaze her works and was now sought out by potters worldwide. Of course, after they'd made the pilgrimage to Irenée Calfat's studio in St Rémy and spent five minutes with the Goddess of Mud, they knew they'd made a mistake. She was one of the most self absorbed and petty people on the face of this earth
~ Louise Penny
Many people think of a narcissist as someone who perhaps names hotels after himself or always wants to be in the spotlight—maybe a character on reality TV.
~ Joe Navarro
If every story someone tells you revolves around how great they are and how they're always the victim in situations they're most likely full of sh...
~ Unknown
I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies.
~ Donald Miller
Like all bores, he preferred his own thoughts and opinions to the exclusion of others
~ Unknown
For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.
~ John Steinbeck
I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress.
~ Jay Presson Allen