29 Quotes About Self-indulgence

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin

And he told me that anything more than twelve minutes of personal pain was self-indulgence, which did more to jerk me out of the state of complete numbness I was in than anything else could have done

To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion

When work is viewed only as a source of economic gain the centrality of work becomes self-indulgence, selfishness and egocentrism.

Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away.