Quotes About Selfishness

he dislikes me to have any pleasure but in himself, any shadow of homage or kindness but such as he chooses to vouchsafe: he knows he is my sun, but when he chooses to withhold his light, he would have my sky to be all darkness; he cannot bear that I should have a moon to mitigate the deprivation.

mogla sam jedino zaklju?iti kako pretjerana taština, jednako kao i pijanstvo, otvrdnjuje srce, podjarmljuje sposobnosti te izopa?uje osje?aje; te kako psi nisu jedina bi?a koja se, i kada su sita do grla, i dalje nasla?uju onime što ne mogu proždrijeti te zavide i na najmanjem zalogaju svome izgladnjelom bratu.

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

Are most people so stingy and selfish? I've gained some insight into human nature since I came here, which is good, but I've had enough for the present.

Sin is not just affairs, or porn shops, or drug cartels. It is also the ignorance and brokenness of the world, extreme self-centeredness, hoarding wealth, using others as objects, not caring.

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

But do not confuse romance with love. I know how to love." She stood up. "I fear your romance is largely an indulgence, and indulgence is selfishness and has to be paid for.

Handsome people are often extremely selfish. To be able to charm others is very dangerous to the character. It comes as a shock, sometimes an unacceptable one, to find there is something you want and you may not have it.

We can become so cruel and so selfish when we are afraid.

People do such strange things to cover guilt. We can become so cruel and so selfish when we are afraid.

selfishness in others. It was ugly from every aspect, a spiritual weakness which soured every other virtue. Even courage and honesty were marred by it in the end.

Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

They know how bad they are. They don't care. They do what they do because...because they love it.

If we wanted to survive, if we wanted to inherit the millennia as Thorne and Cyril, and Teskhamen and Chrysanthe had inherited them, as Avicus and Zenobia had inherited them, as Marius and Pandora and Flavius had inherited them, and as Rhoshamandes and Sevraine had inherited them—and as Seth and Gregory, now the very oldest among us, had inherited them—then we had to meet the future with respect as well as courage and count fear and selfishness to be small things.

There was no place for the poetry or history which had come from a greedy mind and heart.

it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

I thought of Merrick. I couldn't know what the coming day would be like for her. I feared for her. I feared for her. I despised myself. And I wanted Merrick terribly. I wanted Louis. I wanted them as my companions, and it was utterly selfish, and yet it seemed a creature could not live without simple companionship which I held in mind.

Independent? Bosh. That's just another word for selfish. It's stiff-backed people like you who end up being the biggest burdens.

The whole idea that he could take what he wanted without affecting anyone was bull****.

The instinct for profit, thought Jela—personal profit. That instinct was maybe not a long-term survival trait.

Wir werden die vier Feinde in dieser Reihenfolge behandeln, weil auch der Weg der Befreiung durch die Überwindung von Ärger, Angst und Selbstbezogenheit im Allgemeinen diesen Verlauf von außen nach innen nimmt.

The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the supreme delusion of a runaway ego looking out for "number one." In fact, just the opposite is true.

How is it possible to have a "natural harmony" of selfish interests? Smith's answer: an "invisible hand" guided the individual selfish actor "to promote an end which was no part of his intention." "It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of society which [the individual] has in view.