Self Absorption Quotes

27 quotes by 26 authors

Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I feel that it… — Hannah Whitall Smith
Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption. — Andrew Comiskey
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention. — Clifton Webb
Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at… — Mark Rippetoe
When we donâ€™t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions. — Zeena Schreck
Post-â€‹wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several… — Leslie Jamison
Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything. — John Hope Bryant
When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become… — P. M. Forni
Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption . — Timothy Keller
There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption . — Timothy Keller
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. — Richard Hofstadter
Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell a story that… — Adam Gopnik
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living. — James Hunter
Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators. — Loretta Young
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we… — Kevin Malarkey
To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a… — Tom Stoppard
Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption. — Paul Reiser
We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So must the desire… — Tonya Hurley
But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and… — Dennis Lehane
The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and… — Brennan Manning

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