149 Quotes About Self-centered

To observe life is not only to organize your internal and external life, but reach to the state, from where, without any effort, both your internal and external life, moves in synchronization.

Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.

Everyone lives a self-centered life...whether its trivial like what's for breakfast, or more ambitious, like achieving some lofty goal, a person is constantly on her own mind.

There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself. But the happiness of the unworthy and the happiness of the so-so is as fragile and self-centered and dear as the happiness of the righteous and the worthy; and the happiness of the living is no less short and desperate and forgotten than the joys of the dead.

The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege.

The moments of time linking night and dawn were long and dark. If I could cry, it might make things easier. But what would I cry over? Who would I cry for? I was too self-centered to cry for other people, too old to cry for myself.

The greatest ‘victory’ in any victory is that I didn’t make it about myself.

Selfishness leads to loneliness.

If my mentality is to spend my life seeking that which I am owed, I will spend my life seeking something that doesn’t exist. And if I’m truly that selfish, maybe that’s the outcome that I’m owed.