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Quotes About Self-indulgence

I'm confused, Ms. Lane. Is this cake for me, or for you?" Yeah, well, there was that. I'd been planning on eating a lot of it myself. I'd spared no expense. I could have downloaded forty-seven songs from iTunes instead. "They were out of black icing," I said dryly.
~ Karen Marie Moning
this is chesters mac.i gave her what she wanted.i give them all what they want.i'm not responsible for how fucking soulless their wants are. RYODAN- BURNED
~ Karen Moning
Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
~ Betsey Johnson
As you get older you try to do things that please you more. You get a little more selfish. You start thinking I want to do things where I enjoy myself.
~ Clint Eastwood
That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions as you want.
~ Jessica Origliasso
It's my birthday, I'll get high if I want to.
~ Drake
Release gets addictive, you see. It becomes a fixed behaviour, as destructive as any other. Keep repeating the exercise of grief and it loses meaning, it becomes rote, false, a game of self-delusion, self-indulgence. A way of never getting over anything, ever.
~ Steven Erikson
Keep repeating the exercise of grief and it loses meaning, it becomes rote, false, a game of self-delusion, self-indulgence. A way of never getting over anything, ever.
~ Steven Erikson
Bathe in self-pity if you must, soulscaper. But I want you healthy and preened.
~ Storm Constantine
So, my credo consists of the pursuit and the act. One without the other is self-indulgence.
~ Studs Terkel
Paul lay in his room, letting the sick, glorious feeling of grease and carbohydrates carry him away. He wanted to think of nothing more than the feeling of his stomach, obscenely full for the first time ever.
~ Mur Lafferty
The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all.
~ Thomas Hardy
The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all. Bathsheba
~ Thomas Hardy
Yet Farmer Boldwood, whether by nature kind or the reverse to kind, did not exercise kindness, here. The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all.
~ Thomas Hardy
On a personal level, too, art is life intensified: it delights more deeply, consumes more rapidly; it engraves the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventure on the countenance of its servant and in the long run, for all the monastic calm of his external existence, leads to self-indulgence, overrefinement, lethargy, and a restless curiosity that a lifetime of wild passions and pleasures could scarcely engender.
~ Thomas Mann
On a personal level, too, art is life intensified: it delights more rapidly; it engraves the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventure on the countenance of its servant and in the long run, for all the monastic calm of his external existence, leads to self-indulgence, over refinement, lethargy, and a restless curiosity that a lifetime of wild passions and pleasures could scarcely engender.
~ Thomas Mann
But the word "change" is not a blank check for self-indulgence— least of all self-indulgence in the notion that disparities imply villainy, which in turn implies a crusade on the side of the angels against the forces of evil, despite how self-flattering such a vision of the world might be.
~ Thomas Sowell
Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.
~ George Eliot
There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.
~ George F. Will
For me, it´s sloth," I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
To Trump, being a billionaire means plating everything in gold and slapping his name everywhere in huge block letters. It means that he gets to say whatever pops into his head and never has to say he is sorry.
~ Jacob Weisberg
A man could lose his identity fucking around too much.
~ Charles Bukowski
soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m., be back in my room by 2, stretched on the bed, waiting for the phone to ring, not answering, my holiday is an evasion, mt reasoning is not.
~ Charles Bukowski
gratuitous masturbation of the psyche.
~ Charles Bukowski