Nick Hornby Quotes

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

I feel like when people judge me they're not judging me, because they don't know who I am.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

You are more important to yourself than you think you are.

I don't find myself that interesting as a human being, so I don't really think that much of what I say or do warrants being recorded.

I make such a good statistic, somebody should study me now; somebody's gotta be interested in how I feel, just cause I'm here, and I'm real.

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

at this point I meet Me face to face. I am Mary MacLane: of no importance to the wide bright world and dearly and damnably important to Me.

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.

If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!

I do not consider myself a teddybear. Just to be clear, I don't feel sorry for myself.

Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking about them.

Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.

What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?

Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.

In the heart of consciousness is subjectivity, this sense of having a self that observes one's own organism and the world around that organism. That is really the heart of consciousness.

It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself.

Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.

All that matters is how you see yourself.

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.