Zadie Smith Quotes

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness is doomed to frustration centered as it is upon a lie. To live exclusively for myself, I must make all things bend themselves to my will as if I were a god.

You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to live it the way I want.

In general, I can't stand people who always turn a conversation into something about them. I can't stand it when people are too into themselves.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.

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.

All comedians are preoccupied with one thing and with one thing only-themmm-selllves. It's a horrible lot in life.

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.

People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves.

In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

For Trump, it's always about Trump and only Trump.

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back.

People are very narcissistic. It's not all their fault. We live in a society where there is a magazine for you, a channel for you, a perfume for you.

She didn't know there were things worse than selfish.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

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

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.

There's an all-enveloping destructiveness in Donald Trump's character and in his psychological tendencies. But I've focused on what professionally I call solipsistic reality. Solipsistic reality means that the only reality he's capable of embracing has to do with his own self and the perception by and protection of his own self. And for a president to be so bound in this isolated solipsistic reality could not be more dangerous for the country and for the world. He's not psychotic, but I think ultimately this solipsistic reality will be the source of his removal from the presidency.

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

Everyone just needs to get over themselves.

What we do is inherently self-centered and sort of narcissistic. It's hard to really be thinking about myself all of the time when I have a dog who needs me to be caring for him twenty-four seven.