Solipsistic Quotes

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David  Brooks
“... there are other proud people who have low self-esteem. They feel they haven't lived up to their potential. They feel unworthy. They want to hide and disappear, to fade into the background and nurse their own hurts. We don't associate them with pride, but they are still, at root, suffering from the same disease. They are still yoking happiness to accomplishment; it's just that they are giving themselves a D- rather than an A+. They tend to be just as solipsistic, and in their own way as self-centered, only in a self-pitying and isolating way rather than in an assertive and bragging way.”
David Brooks, The Road to Character

Caroline Kepnes
“You are a monster, deathly, solipsistic to the bone and you’re blasphemous because all you want is You”
Caroline Kepnes, You

Iris Murdoch
“You mustn't mind so much. It's all in your head."

"Well, I live in my head.”
Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

Iris Murdoch
“Indeed, now I come to think of it, nearly everything in the world is relevant to my situation.”
Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

“When confronting their distorted way of living, personal essayists must inevitably deal with the horrors of the solipsistic self. Essayists remind us to be astutely aware that life is what occurs before death, and because life is the only truth that we will ever experience, we might as well attempt to get our arms around it and embrace it with all our might. In contrast to the essayist’s desire to make clear-cut distinctions, poetry is an airy art form that makes ample use of metaphors and allusions.”
Kilroy J. Oldster

Sebastián Wortys
“English: "The manner of clouding our past interiority is similar to the manner of clouding the interiority of others."

Česky: „Způsob zamlžení našeho minulého nitra se podobá způsobu zamlžení nitra ostatních.”
Sebastián Wortys