Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

Frankly, you need to get over yourself. It might sound harsh, but that's seriously what it means [1 Corinthians 10:31].

I’d always thought I was above being fascinated by anyone but myself.

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

I'm frightened of my innate vanity. I mean: the suits lined with scarves? Even I know the warning signs. I could quite easily end up in a tiny Playboy mansion, all on my own.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads. It's like coming upon a tree of singing birds while wearing earplugs.

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

I met a new girl at a barbecue, very pretty, a blond I think. I don't know, her hair was on fire, and all she talked about was herself. You know these kind of girls: 'I'm hot. I'm on fire. Me, me, me.' You know. 'Help me, put me out.' Come on, could we talk about me just a little bit?