#alone

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone? ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#alone #bed #chaste #god #goddess

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#apart #body #chained #compelled #creature

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#alone #am #ask #be nice #care

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#alone #another #come #die #dying

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#alone #come #essential #into #leave

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#afghanistan #alone #because #empires #feel

The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#comics #like #live #more #only

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#apart #cannot #devotion #god #helpless

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone. ↗

— Slick Rick

#bad #bad guy #being #could #easily

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last. ↗

— Don Rickles

#different #everyone #last #please #please everyone