Quotes About Self-indulgence

nothing lasted forever, that they must use each moment, each day, as a rare gift. That they must never allow the cloak of hubris and self-indulgence to stop them from appreciating, nurturing, protecting those closest to them.

But her so-called self-indulgence, her cutting everyone out of her life, had been an act of survival, not the act of a victim.

But her so-called self-indulgence, her cutting everyone out of her life, had been an act of survival, not the act of a victim. It took courage. Not cowardice.

the contemporary trend was "to treat mourning as morbid self-indulgence, and to give social admiration to the bereaved who hide their grief so fully that no one would guess anything had happened.

In both England and the United States, he observed, the contemporary trend was "to treat mourning as morbid self-indulgence, and to give social admiration to the bereaved who hide their grief so fully that no one would guess anything had happened.

he observed, the contemporary trend was "to treat mourning as morbid self-indulgence, and to give social admiration to the bereaved who hide their grief so fully that no one would guess anything had happened.

Getting drunk after a hard day of being sober.

Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect.

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. We worship self-indulgence & consumption.

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts.

I realize that nobody listens anymore, too much self indulgence that only leaves room for simple mistakes and major misunderstandings.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.

Two times twice now, I have been called arrogant, by the decadent.I'd rather be overly self confident, rather than overly self indulgent.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

The West too may find that prosperity and self-indulgence are not sufficient to satisfy human needs.

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

self-indulgence isn't something to be tolerated. It's a singularly American phenomenon, Dov and Abba believe—the child who thinks the world revolves around him.

Clinton's egregious act of self-indulgence was outdone by an impeachment based not on constitutionally required high crimes and misdemeanors but on a vindictive determination to bring down a president who had offended self-righteous moralists eager to put a different political agenda in place.

We find personal success and great, if not enduring, influence on the outer fashioning of the world allotted to the violent, the passionate individual who, unchaining the elemental principles of human impulse under favoring circumstances, points out to greed and self-indulgence the speedy pathways to their satisfaction.

He formed a Masturbation Club and didn't allow anybody else to join.