Self Indulgent Quotes

51 Self Indulgent quotes by 47 unique authors

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction . — A. S. Byatt
I'm for all the actor's struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun. — Ginnifer Goodwin
When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward. — David Hasselhoff
Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb! — Courtney Love
Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent… — John Lydon
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. — Dave Barry
One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad… — Carl Sagan
I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life. — Peter Cameron
I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character. — Elizabeth Gaskell
I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They… — Ayn Rand
And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and selfish instinct to… — Eric Ludy
Following your bliss is not self-indulgent, but vital; your whole physical system knows that this is the way to be alive in this world and… — Joseph Campbell
The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else. — Aristotle
Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them… — Bill Bryson
You've never had a hamburger before?" asks Christine, her eyes wide. "No," I say. "Is that what it's called?" "Stiffs eat plain food," Four says,… — Veronica Roth
Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without… — Clifford Ross
You are not thinking hard enough if you are sleeping well. And you would have to be unhinged to take on a subject like the… — Simon Schama
I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects. Before the advent… — Jennifer Armintrout
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled… — Karen Armstrong
It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you… — John Dykstra
Creative people who have made their seemingly most self-indulgent artistic whims into a career. — Unknown Author
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate — Dave Barry
Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in… — Russell Brand
We've never changed for anybody I think that the whole of the first world, it's suffering is very self-indulgent, there's no real reason to be… — Richey Edwards
Because the church doesn't really have heaven on its mind, it tends to be self-indulgent, self-centered, weak, and materialistic. Our present comforts consume too much… — John Macarthur

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