Quotes About Self-indulgence

I used to literally spend every dime I had on clothes, shoes and getting fresh.

Wallowing is sex for depressives.

Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you beat your soul, all souls will cry out.

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.

To win power, we need self-discipline not self-indulgence; listening to what people are truly saying, not hearing only the parts we want to hear.

In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.

Listening to a sermonizer who above all loves to hear himself sermonize is about as much fun as having your toes sheared off

Self-obsession, that treacherous time waster.

A publicidade moderna procura promover não tanto a auto-indulgência, mas a autodúvida. Ela procura criar necessidades, não satisfazê-las, gerar novas ansiedades, em vez de atenuar antigas.

He is not a man wedded to action, Boleyn, but rather a man who stands by, smirking and stroking his beard; he thinks he looks enigmatic, but instead he looks as if he's pleasuring himself.

I poured myself another glass of wine (white, now warm and disgusting, but I was in a masochistic mood)

some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.

With no interruptions to admire dolly outfits, no tomorrow is a school day, we gorged on fruit and sorbet and splashed immoderate second shots of clear heady framboise, whooping at each others' top-this tales in the orgy of eternal adolescence characteristic of the childless in middle age.

Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

and the money is so good, they become intoxicated not only with the riches—they become intoxicated with themselves.

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.

Cuando oración, rituales y vida ascética son solo los medios para la autoindulgencia, son más dañinos que beneficiosos.

Too much caffeine. Not enough you.

I eat too much. I drink to much. A greedy selfish such-n-such. But when I wrap my turban on my mind is clear, I'm 'Baba Lon'.