Quotes about Self-obsession

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

The truth of the matter is that people are obsessed with themselves. This is often caused by the wounds they have received. When you hit your thumb with a hammer, what happens in the following days? You are very mindful of your thumb. The same is true when we are hurt; we become conscious of ourselves to such an extent that we are imprisoned in that consciousness.

Egotism is pathological self-obsession, a reaction to anxiety about whether one really does count. It is a form of acute selfconsciousness and can be prevented and healed only by the experience of being adequately loved. It is, indeed, a desperate response to frustration of the need we all have to count for something and be held to be irreplaceable, without price.

This is an empire called "narcissism.

I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.