Self Absorbtion Quotes

“We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves.”
― Jack Gardner, Words Are Not Things

“She'll be an excellent novelist: a monster of self-absorption.”
― Lan Samantha Chang, All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost

“Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.”
― Marquita Burke-DeJesus, Radically Ordinary

“Edward:
But I'm obsessed by the thought of my own significance.

Rielly:
Precisely. And I could make you feel important,
And you would imagine it a marvelous cure; And you would go on, doing such amount of mischief
As lay within your power -- until you came to grief.
Half of the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important.
They don't mean to do harm--but the harm does not interest them
Or they do not see it, or they justify it
Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle
To think well of themselves.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

“The Hemulen slid down onto the grass completely exhausted.
"Oh!" he moaned. "There has never been anything but trouble and danger since I came into the Moomin family.”
― Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll

“Sometimes in a crowded mall I realise that everyone has a whole life of their own and it's like suddenly seeing infinity ignoring itself.”
― Joey Comeau

“Ballarat survivor Andrew Collins, watching in the room in Rome, said the first word that came into his mind was 'empathy'. 'To me it showed that he [Cardinal George Pell, giving evidence before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse] struggled to show any,' Collins says. 'We didn't see it as a blunder, as he thinks carefully before he speaks and is very intelligent and articulate. This is just how his mind works. If it's not about him, involving him or of benefit to him, then it hardly registers.”
― Louise Milligan, Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell