Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

We all get self-centered.

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

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

His fundamental interest throughout his life was himself.

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

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

I don't focus on anyone but myself.

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.

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

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

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

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.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

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.

When someone says, 'I'm not political,' I feel like what they're saying is, 'I only care about myself. In my bathtub. Me and my bathtub is what I care about.'

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

Nobody really cares about what other people think anymore; they're all about themselves.

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

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

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.

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

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

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.

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.