Miles Franklin Quotes

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves.

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

We all get self-centered.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

The dilemma I have is that everything I do at work is all about me, and at what point is that selfish? I'm just talking and singing about myself, or I'm standing on a stage and hoping that everybody likes me. Obviously, it's also about the music and feeling and connecting; I know it's deeper than that.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

We're into an age of excessive individuals, all right. We're into the age were independence, autonomy, convenience, sometimes selfishness. The new trinity of me, myself and I, seems to dominate. We know that's contrary to the very nature of the human person. The very nature of the human person needs God and needs other people.

It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump.

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

A lot of comedians are selfish.