The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

~ George Carlin

George Carlin Humor Insanity Lies Lying Self Indulgence Truth

When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

~ Tom Robbins

Tom Robbins Finding Yourself Happiness Self Indulgence

Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood just behind the one you found yourself contemplating. The trick, but it wasn't a trick, was to take up at once the thing you saw and the reason you saw it as well; to always bite off more than you could chew, and then chew it. If it were self-indulgence for him to cut and polish his semiprecious memories, and yet seem like danger, like a struggle he was unfit for, then self-indulgence was a potent force, he must examine it, he must reckon with it.

~ John Crowley

John Crowley Challenge Creativity Inspiration Novelty Security Self Indulgence Writing

People stick hearts on Valentine's cards and get married in white dresses and give each other flowers. They think love is every-thing going right. That's not love. That's self-indulgence. That's good luck. Love is when you walk into the burning building. Love is when the person who means most to you in the world is breathing through a mask and pissing in a bag. Love is when they no longer know your name.

~ Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon Hurt Love Pain Self Indulgence Valentines

O woman, thou art my imperfection!

~ Pawan Mishra

Pawan Mishra Attraction Chemistry Debauchery Infatuation Love Lust Seduction Self Indulgence Sensual Sex Sexism Sexual Woman

Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations.

~ Husam Wafaei

Husam Wafaei Arab Civilization Decadence Self Indulgence Society Syria

A writer should be able to open a window or two for others to see the world and themselves in a new light. Anything less is just self–indulgence and intellectual masturbation.

~ Barista Uno

Barista Uno Intellectual Light Masturbation Self Indulgence Window Writer Writing

Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman Arrogance Assumptions Loneliness Self Indulgence

Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.

~ Sōseki Natsume

Sōseki Natsume Introspection Overthinking Self Indulgence Thinking

The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ, is that he is more clearly aware than other men of the rebelliousness and perennial pride of the flesh, he is conscious of his sloth and self-indulgence and knows that his arrogance must be eradicated. Hence there is a need for daily self-discipline.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Pride Regeneration Sanctification Self Discipline Self Indulgence Sin Sloth The Flesh

Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away.

~ Gail Collins

Gail Collins And Rhetoric Discipleship Self Indulgence

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

~ Tom Robbins

Tom Robbins Despair Self Indulgence Unhappiness

Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.

~ Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie Emotion Self Indulgence

To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion

~ Richard J. Foster

Richard J. Foster Idolatry Lust Self Indulgence

Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery.

~ Orrin Woodward

Orrin Woodward Happiness Misery Pleasure Self Denial Self Indulgence

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez Misery Self Indulgence Wallowing