Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly…

Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But…

— Sherry Turkle

“Selfishness is self-absorption, self-seeking behaviour that either disregards the rights and needs of others or tramples them deliberately in favour of personal gain.”

— Adelyn Birch

When evangelizers rise from prayer, their hearts are more open; freed of self-absorption, they are desirous of doing good and sharing their lives with…

— Pope Francis

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

— James Hunter

Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.

— Mason Cooley

To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

— Richard Hofstadter

Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in…

— Leslie Jamison

Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and…

— Mark Rippetoe

A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished-not…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.

— Mason Cooley

[Pope Francis]sees a world in need of the Gospel, and of friendship with Jesus Christ, as an antidote to the self-absorption and loneliness that…

— George Weigel

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

— Timothy Keller

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

— Mason Cooley

Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to…

— Walter Benjamin

I am not the center of the universe. And it's a lesson that I keep having to learn; it's my ongoing work, I'd say.…

— Patrick Fabian