Self Absorbed Person Quotes

#1. I love that Katie would never, ever, in a million years, treat anyone as blatantly shitty as you've treated her tonight. It's a shame you're so thoroughly self-absorbed that it renders you incapable of getting to know her, because believe me, if you could, you'd be a better person for it.

Kim Holden

#2. Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.

Gautama Buddha

#3. Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.

Paul Theroux

#4. If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

Mark Twain

#5. I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.

William Goldman

#6. If you can accomplish any great task being absorbed in it and that too without any expectations, believe me, that one act of yours will make you a "historical person".

Deep Trivedi

#7. I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

Toni Morrison

#8. There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him.

Rick Warren

#9. Patience is the healthiest ingredient of our life.

Umar

#10. Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me.

Haruki Murakami

#11. I was the darkest skinned person in my family. I remember how I used to feel - like I wasn't pretty enough, or I wasn't good enough.

Rapsody

#12. Love is what we call it when we find someone else, but lose ourselves.

Mhairi McFarlane

#13. I think that whenever soul is present, it's because what you're doing, whom you're with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place of person or event, without ego and without judgment.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

#14. If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.

William S. Burroughs

#15. People are afraid to concentrate because they are afraid of losing themselves if they are too absorbed in another person, in an idea, in an event. The less strong their self, the greater the fear of losing themselves in the act of concentration on the non-self.

Erich Fromm

#16. It will take about a month for that awareness to be fully absorbed and modify someone's attention field. During that period of time, a person who studies with me will meditate on their own, and apply those things that they have learned to their daily lives.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?

Confucius

#18. Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

Joshua Leonard

#19. So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how a person was, a manner of being, that gets most deeply absorbed, and prompts you to revisit certain parts of your life with an enhanced perspective, flowing forward right up to now.

Chang-rae Lee

#21. But just when a man expects he's earned the littlest bit of milk and honey, the world throws a load of horseshit at him.

Dean Koontz

#22. There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

Sophocles