Albert Camus Quotes

I never really look at other people; I just worry about myself.

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

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

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

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

His fundamental interest throughout his life was himself.

I don't really give a damn about too much other than myself.

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

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

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not.

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.

I don't focus on anyone but myself.

And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

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.

Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads. It's like coming upon a tree of singing birds while wearing earplugs.

[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.

From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

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.