Self Centered Quotes

Most popular self-centered quotes

People are self-centered
to a nauseous degree.
They will keep on about themselves
while I'm explaining me.
Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption. - Paul Reiser quote.
Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

babies parenting

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion.  When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. - Daniel Goleman quote.
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion.  When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large.
Daniel Goleman Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships

empathy compassion

A person completely wrapped up in himself makes a small package. - Harry Emerson Fosdick quote.
A person completely wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

egotism

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. - Leo Rosten quote.
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
Leo Rosten The Return of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n

narcissist writers

Life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. - Betty Friedan quote.
Life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self.

satisfaction

Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption. - Rita Mae Brown quote.
Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people. - Gail Godwin quote.
At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.
Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance, and image repair? - Letty Cottin Pogrebin quote.
Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance, and image repair?