Absorption Quote by Loretta Young

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister…

— Emile Souvestre

“Selfishness is self-absorption, self-seeking behaviour that either disregards the rights and needs of others or tramples them deliberately in favour of personal gain.”

— Adelyn Birch

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

— David Mitchell

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil…

— Bram Stoker

“self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion.”

— Daniel Goleman

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our…

— William Wilberforce

When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

— Zeena Schreck

The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.

— Eric Hoffer

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and oral evils.

— Anonymous

Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

— Anton Chekhov

There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking…

— Eric Hoffer

Selfishness is the root of great evil.

— Richard G. Scott