42 Quotes About Self-absorbed

One of the things that confirmed Hyacinth’s suspicion that America was an evil, lonely place was that people were islands unto themselves. And so when Avril drifted away, there was no friend or neighbor or pastor or coworker to reach out to and ask after her child.

Never make another person's emotional or physical needs more important than your own.

Let go of self-obsession, so that the small you can become the world personified.

If I do this thing,” he said, “it is the last I will ever do for you. Do not come begging again.”“Father,” I said, “I never will. I leave this place tomorrow.”He would not ask where, he would not even wonder. So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.

Mrs. P.? Oh no. She’s the help. Bosnian, you know. Or is it Serbian? An absolute treasure, anyway. As I always say to Bel, if there’s one good thing to come out of all this fuss in the Balkans, it’s the availability of quality staff . . .” The words died away on my lips: once again I found myself trailing off in the stare of those unblinking eyes. This fellow was like some kind of after-dinner black hole. My anxiety began to mount again.

The most self-absorbed people display an ironic pension for the smallest minds and the largest mouths.