Marie Corelli Quotes

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel.

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

The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

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

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

I've criticized myself over the years.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.

Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don't have to be a Freud to know that the most fascinating person in the world - actors or anybody - is yourself.

In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It’s not! If I’m the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.

Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.

Depression is the most extreme form of vanity.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"