Self Absorption Quotes
27 quotes by 26 authors
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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
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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
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In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.
— Clifton Webb
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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
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When we don’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
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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 several…
— Leslie Jamison
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Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.
— John Hope Bryant
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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
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Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .
— Timothy Keller
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There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .
— Timothy Keller
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To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.
— Richard Hofstadter
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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
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Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.
— James Hunter
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Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.
— Loretta Young
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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
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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
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Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.
— Paul Reiser
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Self Absorption Quotes
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