Quotes About Self Indulgence

#1. At first Ifemelu thought Kimberly's apologizing sweet, even if unnecessary, but she had begun to feel a flash of impatience, because Kimberly's repeated apologies were tinged with self-indulgence, as though she believed that she could, with apologies, smooth all the scalloped surfaces of the world.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#2. There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

Larry Mullen Jr.

#3. Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice

Maryam Jameelah

#4. Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

Donald A. Norman

#5. It turns out that the Bible is right - "It is better to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35). People generally do find greater joy in giving freely to others than they do in rampant self-indulgence.

Francis Chan

#6. The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

Laozi

#7. Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

Aldous Huxley

#8. The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle path, avoiding these two extremes, leads to peace of mind, wisdom, & complete liberation from the dissatisfactions of life.

Henepola Gunaratana

#9. Perfect by nature, icons of self indulgence. Just what we need more lies about our world.

Evanescence

#10. Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.

Arthur Smith

#11. Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

Richard M. Weaver

#12. Mitrofanii frowned - he found women's tears hard to bear, especially if they were not shed out of self-indulgence but for some substantial reason, as now.

Boris Akunin

#13. Beyond a certain point, hope is more than self-indulgence. It's self-harm.

Simon R. Green

#14. Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

Joyce Cary

#15. 'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

Iain Banks

#16. Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure.

Khalil Gibran

#17. She couldn't save them, she couldn't save anyone but herself, which made her presence here the worst sort of self-indulgence, her mission a long-running fantasy.

Ben Fountain

#18. Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

Audre Lorde

#19. Incidentally, why is it that drug abuse is always described as an 'experiment', as if some important scientific enterprise were at stake instead of hedonistic self-indulgence?

Roger Kimball

#20. For to be afflicted with endless sorrow at the loss of someone very dear is foolish self-indulgence, and to feel none is inhuman callousness.

Seneca.

#21. Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

Mark Haddon

#22. In both England and the United States, he observed, the contemporary trend was to treat mourning as morbid self-indulgence, and to give social admiration to the bereaved who hide their grief so fully that no one would guess anything had happened.

Joan Didion

#23. Of late years wealth has made us greedy, and self-indulgence has brought us, through every kind of sensual excess, to be, if I may so put it, in love with death both individual and collective

Livy

#24. In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

Dean Koontz

#25. Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

Harold Prince

#26. I've deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men.

I.J. Parker

#27. Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level.

John Stuart Mill

#28. Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Robert Baden-Powell

#29. The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#30. Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

Terence McKenna

#31. When work is viewed only as a source of economic gain the centrality of work becomes self-indulgence, selfishness and egocentrism.

Sunday Adelaja

#32. Most people die old, full of pain and regret. Or young and full of drugs and self-indulgence - or sheer bad luck.

Caroline Kepnes

#33. In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?

Sebastian Junger

#34. Live with hope and courage and lived instead a long season of whining, self-indulgence, and fear.

Shauna Niequist

#35. In these latter years wealth has brought avarice in its train, and the unlimited command of pleasure has created in men a passion for ruining themselves and everything else through self-indulgence and licentiousness.

Livy

#36. Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.

Gregory Peck

#37. Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader.

William Zinsser

#38. Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'

Lulu

#39. Guilt is a self-indulgence.

Marian Keyes

#40. Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

Idries Shah

#41. Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes with open hands and open heart; lust comes with only an open appetite.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#42. The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.

Fulton J. Sheen

#43. The only thing I can really trust is my own self-indulgence.

Justin Vivian Bond

#44. What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

Woodrow Wilson

#45. The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all.

Thomas Hardy

#46. When you're walking in, basically like a kid a candy store, to a project where there's an endless canon of material, you have to step back from it as a self-indulgence. You have to look at it neutrally.

Josh Groban

#47. Clinton's egregious act of self-indulgence was outdone by an impeachment based not on constitutionally required high crimes and misdemeanors but on a vindictive determination to bring down a president who had offended self-righteous moralists eager to put a different political agenda in place.

Robert Dallek

#48. Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Thomas Sowell

#49. My life for yours: it may mean three seconds of my time to redeem some thoughtless bit of self-indulgence on the part of someone else, or it may mean, or did mean, Golgotha, where My Life for Yours was supremely dramatized and entails our eternal joy.

Thomas Howard

#50. Shame can be self-indulgence too.

Eleanor Clark

#51. All his [Laurent's] great powerful body wanted was to do nothing, to wallow in never-ending idleness and self-indulgence. He would have liked to eat well, sleep well, satisfy his passions liberally, without stirring from one spot or risking the misfortune of a bit of fatigue.

Emile Zola

#52. When you learn economy. It strips away self-indulgence. Just in the act itself it requires a certain amount of humility. You have to accept the fact that you might feel you can do better but in the moment you have to make a choice.

Charlie Huston

#53. God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not.

Anne Bronte

#54. Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me likes that.

Richard Eyre

#55. Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

John Ruskin

#56. Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

Mason Cooley

#57. I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence.

Jeffrey Tate

#58. In a world of self indulgence your attitude is going to be your biggest obstacle because you're only concerned with yourself!

Auliq Ice

#59. [H]e who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation.

George S. Clason

#60. There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi

#61. Networking events often resembled a pandemonium of self-indulgence with the pleasures of flesh on display.

Elise Icten

#62. Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.

Rick Warren

#63. Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.

Augustus William Hare

#64. This was loyalty of a sort which was rare in an age of self-indulgence. It was an old-fashioned virtue of the type which her philosophical colleagues extolled but could never themselves match.

Alexander McCall Smith

#65. A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

Al-Ghazali

#66. Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations.

Husam Wafaei

#67. Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

Thomas Sowell

#68. When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.

Theodore L. Cuyler

#69. The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

Laura Marling

#70. Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery.

Orrin Woodward

#71. Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Jimmy Carter

#72. Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .

Timothy Keller

#73. A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

W. Somerset Maugham

#74. I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.

Frederick Lenz

#75. Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

C.J. Mahaney

#76. Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.

Joyce Carol Oates

#77. An authentic response to who God is and what He's done ... What we do is useful to the extent that it provides an ability for our community to voice things back to God. If it's unsuccessful in that, then it's just self-indulgence.

Crowder

#78. Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

Marcus Aurelius

#79. Still, a person who cannot express love is stopping the flow of life, is censoring where censorship is a form of self-indulgence, the fear of giving oneself away.

May Sarton

#80. Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.

Eric Liu

#81. The Western world's sole objective seems to be success, status, security, self-indulgence, pleasure, and comfort.

Billy Graham

#82. All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private.

Terry Pratchett

#83. Some will call this self-indulgence
(They are lucky not to know its truth)
Some will know the simple fact of pain
This is becoming my normality

Sarah Kane

#84. He shrank from even the smallest things that inclined towards self indulgence. He would not remain alone with a lady.

{On Jain scholar Virchand Gandhi}

Moncure D. Conway

#85. And if anything good came to lie at your feet, you would be too blinded by hedonistic self-indulgence to see it!"
"Wrong again, my love," he murmured. "For I clearly see you.

Victoria Vane

#86. Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.

Louis Faurer

#87. When we don't get any treats, we feel depleted, resentful, and angry, and we feel justified in self-indulgence. We start to crave comfort - and grab that comfort wherever we can, even if it means breaking good habits.

Gretchen Rubin

#88. I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#89. In the end, self-indulgence is very much about your ego and your vanity and your own id. The more you can indulge in it, the more pleasurable it becomes. And then when it feeds out, it's able to penetrate the mind and create a reaction.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#90. American art in general ... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

John Updike

#91. Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Ayn Rand

#92. If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write - and this is not mere self-indulgence, but a desire for accuracy - I see clearly that the starting point of it all for me was war.

J.M.G. Le Clezio

#93. Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

Hal Rothman

#94. My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

Chris Evans

#95. Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

Ronald Rolheiser

#96. It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures which they cling to ... You feel sad about all that self-indulgence and self-satisfaction, for you know with an indestructible certainty that something greater is coming.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#97. So, my credo consists of the pursuit and the act. One without the other is self-indulgence.

Studs Terkel

#98. I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try not to [be abstract], it comes out really forced and awkward.

Spencer Krug

#99. The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

Benjamin Disraeli

#100. So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial.

Ossian Everett Mills