Self Centered Quotes

“I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“From where I’m sitting,
I AM the centre of the Universe!”
― Sebastyne Young

“Some people, who always talk about how busy they are, are really trying to claim how 'important' they are.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

“Our century is so shallow, its desires scattered so widely, our knowledge so encyclopedic, that we are absolutely unable to focus our designs on any single object and hence, willy-nilly, we fragment all our works into trivia and charming toys. We have the marvellous gift of making everything insignificant.”
― Nikolai Gogol

“If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.”
― David Nicholls, A Question of Attraction

“Your ego will tell you that it’s not egotistical.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is time to center yourself.

Pull your focus inward.

To what you know you want and deserve. To respect, and reciprocity, and giving only to those who commit to the asking. Be discerning with your time, and your energy, and your tender heart. Be infinitely brave in owning your voice and speaking your needs and your truth. This work is hard, and it is holy, and it is so, so good.

Because when you reside in your center, all there is left to do is expand.

You have done this so many times before. You know what comes next. There's some serious power brewing here. You could say 'watch out world'. But it doesn't really matter if they do or if they don't.

What comes next is just for you.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“DOLMANCE — [...] What is it one desires when taking one's pleasure? that everything around us be occupied with nothing but ourselves, think of naught but us, care for us only.”
― Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Boudoir

“Lost in a sea of self, we forget the beauty of the shore. Only by turning outward can we truly explore.”
― Jo P. Helm

“Don't be so ignorant as to think that what we're exercising is freedom if we've bled it of morals, purged it of wisdom, declared it to be our right, and bent it to serve our agendas. This is not the exercise of freedom. Rather, this is the birth of anarchy.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“AIl self-centered thoughts limit our vast mind.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“We can deny the destructive nature of our choices. And we can deny the consequences of those choices even when they litter the landscape of our lives and our culture with the burning wreckage of our foolishness. But are we ignorant enough to die by the hand of the ignorance that we’ve perpetually fed because it serves our agenda, or do we wish to live by letting it starve so that it’s no longer feeding on us?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Isn’t it interesting that many of the agendas that we seem to be willing to die for are killing us anyway?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I am not ‘surrendered’ to the fact that something greater than myself exists. Rather, I am ‘liberated’ by that fact. For then I am able to understand my role in the immensity of the universe in which I reside. For if I am my own role in my own world there is no immensity in that, and neither is there any destiny other than the demise of the self that never found itself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Making the world a better place is not making the world my better place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Might I work to be better than the self that I claim is better.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Abandonment is sacrifice thrown into reverse.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Even a thousand acts of kindness can be undone by a single unintentional harm, revealing the fragility of trust in human relationships, and the harsh truth stares into one's eyes that humans are often so self-centered and selfish that reliability and reciprocity seems an illusion in this world.”
― Renuka Goria

“The god that we need to be in denial of is the one that we purport to be.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Greed will feed you full of starvation.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Mankind is averse to true wisdom because it will demand of us what we prefer not to give. Therefore we craft something that will give us everything that we want, and this we call wisdom.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Confidence minus humility turns into arrogance on a bender.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Choice’ and ‘consequence’ are the two sides of a single coin. And the fool bent upon selfish ambition will adamantly declare that it is entirely possible to mint a coin with only one side.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If the story of your life was all about you, at your death the person who would have found pleasure in reading it is in the same pine box that you are. And the ones who have no interest are the ones shoveling the dirt.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Desperation can make people mercenary like that--you spot an exit and you start running toward it and you don't look back. You just do your best to convince yourself that the other person is right behind you.”
― Laura van den Berg, State of Paradise

“Maybe you should ask, “Whose pain, whose gain?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Live for yourself. Die by yourself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“While it may seem uninhibited and respectable to say, "who cares what anyone thinks about me" and "I don't mind what anyone thinks about me," what you're really saying is no different from "I'm going to fool everyone." Especially in this case.”
― NisiOisiN, 鬼物語 [Onimonogatari]

“So, you think I'm only concerned with myself."

"I didn't say that either. But, basically, that's true of all of us.”
― Percival Everett, Erasure