Top 1200 Self Indulgent Quotes & Sayings

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act.

One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.

You need to see yourself in what you direct, I think - directing is quite self-indulgent from that point of view.

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.

At the risk of saying you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie: you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie.

My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.

That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions as you want.

I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?

I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

Trigger warnings are part of the West's debauchery of self-indulgent victimhood.

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

That might be completely self-indulgent, to write your first major-label debut as a dedication to your family. But, you know, that's where my heart was.

There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It’s not a tool to understand myself.

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

If you're in a band or think of yourself as a slightly creative person, you can get quite self-indulgent, so sometimes it's nice to have those people who bring you down to earth, but in a pleasant way.

Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.

I am pretty self-indulgent.

As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We're prideful, only showing what we deem as perfect or what we think our peers will respect.

I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are you totally deluded in sitting down at a desk every day and trying to write something? Is it self-indulgent, or might it possibly lead to something worthwhile? At a certain point I decided to keep on because I felt like the work was getting better, and I was taking great pleasure in that.

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.

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

Nobody likes a presenter melting in a self-indulgent puddle of tears.

When you think about it, when you're single you are not deprived in any way - if anything, it's a pretty self-indulgent lifestyle. It's selfish: You can make your own decisions and indulge yourself on an impulse.

At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

I'm for all the actor's struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Holiday food is rich and indulgent. Going-home-to-see-family food is richer and even more indulgent.

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

I think when you can be supremely self-indulgent sometimes it's easy to get up one's own asshole. I need parameters. I need discipline.

A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

But although I appreciate our audience, we don't do things for them. It's all for us - we play really self-indulgent music.

Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle speech and worldly talk, to buffoonery and cracking indecent jokes. There is self-indulgence in touching without necessity, making mocking signs with the hands, pushing for a place, snatching up something for oneself, approaching someone else shamelessly. All these things come from not having the fear of God in the soul and from these a man comes little by little to perfect contempt.

I'll smoke anything. I won't spend a lot of money on cigars, because I consider that too self indulgent. $3, max, except for special occasions. And yes, I do know the difference.

There are not many designers who are truly creative and literate. Most are self-indulgent, illiterate, fashion-mongering, service people trying to bridge a message between a product and an audience.

When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.

Creativity is very self-indulgent.

Basically, I frittered away the Nineties making pop videos and being pretty self-indulgent.

We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.

I think comedies should be short. I don't want to be self-indulgent; I don't want a two-hour comedy.

Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.

Fashion is always seen as somewhat frivolous and self-indulgent. And I think people on the inside maybe don't see or understand how exciting and diverse a business it is.

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!"

Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.

Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects. Before the advent of self-publishing, there were plenty of self-indulgent novels on the shelves.

Societies don't become less self-indulgent; people do.

Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don't know where to look, and that's what I consider self-indulgent.