#lone

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#based #change #conservatism #idea #leave

I want a billion people to know my name as well as they know their own. I want to clone myself to fame. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#fame #funny #funny

I haven’t been feeling like myself lately. No, I’ve been feeling like my clone. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #funny

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#books #how #know #men #ought

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#blame #find #harder #living #living alone

Know this and know it more than you've ever bothered to understand anything before: I am, as lonely as they come. As empty as they make them. There is a reason my liver is filled with whiskey. A cloaked rhyme to why my lungs have fallen in love with smoke. I am lonely. But I have come to the conclusion that loneliness, no matter how often it weighs the soul, is sometimes, a beautiful thing. ↗

— Christopher Poindexter

#drink #loneliness #smoke #beauty