Bayley Quotes

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

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

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

I don't focus on anyone but myself.

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

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.

His fundamental interest throughout his life was himself.

People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.

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

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

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?

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.

People are more interested in being visible than they are in loving other people.

The only one that matters is me. I am the only one that matters.

I'm not selfish before a fight or afterwards, but for the time of the fight itself, I have to think totally of 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.

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

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

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

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.