Neil Gaiman Quotes

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness is doomed to frustration centered as it is upon a lie. To live exclusively for myself, I must make all things bend themselves to my will as if I were a god.

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

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.

Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things.

People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves.

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to live it the way I want.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

me-firstism

In essence, Trump thinks everything should be about him, for him, for his benefit and glorification - and he can't comprehend, and doesn't care about, anything that isn't.

We have all had the experience at some point in our lives of sitting across from someone whose favorite subject is themselves. This is true of nearly everyone to some respect - but for some people, it is a particularly acute problem.

She didn't know there were things worse than selfish.

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

I’d always thought I was above being fascinated by anyone but myself.

I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.

I am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination; what a hassle that would be!

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.

Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.