820 Quotes About Selfishness
- Author Richard Llewellyn
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Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.
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- Author Jhumpa Lahiri
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Nor was her love for Udayan recognizable or intact. Anger was always mounted to it, zigzagging through her like some helplessly mating pair of insects. Anger at him for dying when he might have lived. For bringing her happiness, and then taking it away. For trusting her, only to betray her. For believing in sacrifice, only to be so selfish in the end.
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- Author Adalbert Stifter
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Everyone is out for himself. Not everyone will say so but everyone behaves so. And those that don't say so often behave in an even more grossly selfish way.
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- Author Alex Bledsoe
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Some of us -" She paused as she sought the words. " - don't die unless we want to. The selfish ones never do.
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- Author Abraham Ruiz
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Emotion it self is blindfold. So one second of your life control by emotion it's the definition of selfishness.
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- Author Bryant McGill
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The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. (p 57)
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- Author Nella Larsen
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The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.
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- Author Thich Nhat Hanh
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All love may begin by being passionate, especially for younger people. But in the process of living together, they have to learn and practice love, so that selfishness--the tendency to possess--will diminsh, and the elemetns of understanding and gratitude will settle in, little by little, until their love becomes nourishing, protecting, and reassuring," (41).
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- Author George Orwell
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I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm interested in us.' - Julia
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