#selfish

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #selfish




We usually live our lives with the belief that "I sacrifice myself for everyone else," rather than thinking that "everyone else helps me.


Jae Woong Kim


#life #philosophy #selfishness #attitude

Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.


Victor Hugo


#sacrifice #selfishness #equality

...I committed a sin the day I refused you - I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be - forgive me, Love, for acting on principles...


John Geddes


#love #refusal #repentance #selfishness #sin

When you're here, I'm there for you. And when you're there, I'm here for you.



Jarod Kintz


#direction #here #humor #love #noncommittal

Listen, kiddo,” he said. “I’m a selfish prick, and I want to be the greatest fuck of your life and ruin you for every man who comes after me. But I’m not a mind reader, so I need some help. Otherwise I could end up as the douchebag who’s got shitty taste in wine and totally traumatized you when you were thirty.


Cara McKenna


#selfish #life

The brittle bones beneath my chest cracked, piercing my heart. It was you who breathed new life into my lungs and it was you who would later syphon the life you had given so as to feed your selfish desires


Sonya Watson


#love-hurts #pain #selfish-love #life

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.


Lydia Davis


#love #selfishness #love

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.


Alexandre Dumas


#love #passions #selfishness #the-three-musketeers #love

At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you.


Thomas Hardy


#cruel #deception #flirting #heartbreaker #heartbroken

I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by the high sentiments of human nature much less by the sentiments of love and heroism but is a system of distrust not of giving, but of taking advantage.


Joshua Ferris


#system #love