Self-Centered Perspective Quotes

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.

Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.

There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.

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

My good friend once said, "You guys think you're the stars in your own movie."

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.

The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, ‘I.’

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

The egotism of woman is always for two.

An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.

Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

I have my opinions about the way my father was. But they are my opinions, not necessarily the truth, and they are certainly not the whole spectrum of what this man was going through. It's my young, selfish interpretation of that person.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.

If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

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

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Who made you the center of the universe?

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.

To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.

Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.

When you by nature subscribe to the view that everyone except yourself is a berk or a wanker, it is hard to bond with anybody in any rational common cause.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.