I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption . — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
“It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.” — William Raymond Manchester Copy Share Image
David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything. — John Hope Bryant Copy Share Image
You'll continue to be a bitch no matter what, but I'm glad you aren't a callous, self-absorbed one. — Genna Rulon Copy Share Image
“We can put it this way: the man who has faith is the man who is no longer looking at himself and… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Do not watch yourself too closely. Do not draw over-rapid conclusions from what is happening to you. Simply let it happen. Otherwise… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I am talking about self absorbtion. If you think about it, the human race is pretty self absorbed. Racism might be the… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems. — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Witnessing the panoply of beauty in all of nature takes us out of our shell of self-absorption and makes us realize that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
