Solipsistic Quotes

#1. Maybe it was stupid and solipsistic, but I liked to think about me. I didn't want to be part of some trend.

Ned Vizzini

#2. Digital books are in some ways hastening the lazy, solipsistic narcissism of our culture. We use our gadgets as proxies for other people and genuine human interaction. And yes, I think that's bad.

Jason Merkoski

#3. Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.

Tad Williams

#4. Believing there's no God stops me from being solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate.

Penn Jillette

#5. You are a monster, deathly, solipsistic to the bone and you're blasphemous because all you want is You

Caroline Kepnes

#6. Anxiety compels a person to think, but it is the type of thinking that gives thinking a bad name: solipsistic, self-eviscerating, unremitting, vicious.

Daniel Smith

#7. Water begins to boil in the kettle; it starts as a private, secluded sound, pure as rain, and grows to a steady, solipsistic bubbling.

Amit Chaudhuri

#8. In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.

Ben Affleck

#9. And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.

Molly Ringwald

#10. Solipsistic, adj.
Go ahead, I thought. Go ahead. Go ahead. I got stuck there. Go ahead. Go ahead. Because I genuinely couldn't see anything after that.

David Levithan

#11. This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness.

Maria Popova

#12. The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

Chuck Klosterman

#13. Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

Christopher Hitchens

#14. Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily ... life is only ours on loan.

Sue Grafton

#15. My wealth of merit gathered in, With reverence but without conceptual target, When shall I reveal this truth of emptiness To those who go to ruin through belief in real existence?

Santideva

#16. Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.

Theodore Roosevelt

#17. Without love we are not truly living.

Dianna Agron

#18. I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was literally the only hour of the day that I wasn't working. It was nine months of torture, but I made sure I got out to run.

Jane McGonigal

#19. It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.

J. T. Walsh

#20. I wanted to ask you one day but the time never seemed right, but we started talking and ... Hell, I don't even have a ring ... I'm naked here, bella, just laying myself out for you, telling you how I feel.

Pamela Clare

#21. Life is confusing. We're all just trying to get on with it, that's all.

Art Carney

#22. It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.

Daniel Defoe

#23. There is life beyond death ... never fear what can be escaped.

J.K. Rowling

#24. Fathers and mothers," she found herself saying, "leave their mark, no matter if we've known them a lifetime or only a day.

Nalini Singh

#25. If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Charles Spurgeon

#26. My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

Tina Yothers

#27. I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died.

Keith Waterhouse