Self-Love Quotes

Take a moment for yourself. Every day.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.[On cesse de s’aimer si quelqu’un ne nous aime.]

Virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the canon.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind; it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.[Cet amour – propre est l’instrument de notre conservation ; il ressemble à l’instrument de la perpétuité de l’espèce : il est nécessaire , il nous est cher , il nous fait plaisir , et il faut le cacher .]

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.[L’amour-propre, si susceptible pour lui-même, ne devine presque jamais la susceptibilité des autres.]

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens, even, accidentally, to stumble upon it.

If we were not all of us exaggeratedly interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that no one could endure it.[Wenn nicht Jeder ein so ganz übertriebenes Interesse an sich selbst nähme, so wäre das Leben so uninteressant, daß Reiner es barin aushielte.]

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me – not even you. Can you understand that? Only my love – not your answer. Not even your indifference.

Amour-propre produces more libertines than love does.[L’amour-propre fait plus de libertins que l’amour.]