Quotes About Dependence

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I do love you. I'd be one miserable and lonesome man without you around.

. . . But I know a man who can.

Leave the driving to us!

For all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.

The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Nicotine patches are great. Stick one over each eye and you can't find your cigarettes.

The cigarette does the smoking — you're just the sucker.

It starts when you sink in his arms and ends with your arms in his sink.

It's always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped.

Dogs have owners, cats have staff.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib.

An attachment, by its very nature, makes you vulnerable to emotional turmoil and is always threatening to shatter your peace.

O HAPPY FAULT! The Jewish mystic Baal Shem had a curious way of praying to God. "Remember, Lord," he would say, "you need me just as much as I need you. If you did not exist, whom would I pray to? If I did not exist, who would do the praying?" It brought me joy to think that if I had not sinned God would have had no occasion to be forgiving.

You have to trust someone sometime.

Marie-Laure will not see anything for the rest of her life. Spaces she once knew as familiar–the four-room flat she shares with her father, the little tree-lined square at the end of her street–have become labyrinths bristling with hazards. Drawers are never where they should be. The toilet is an abyss. A glass of water is too near, too far; her fingers too big, always too big.

A man is not defined but un-defined by autonomy: he loses his skin.

I don't know what I'd do without you. There's no one else to look after me. And it's not just that. I sometimes think you're the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when I'm with you.

She thought the sun shone out of his you-know-where! And she'd been his housekeeper for years and years. Keeper of the keys! She cooked for him, cleaned for him, gave half her life to him. I'm sure he'd have wanted to be there for the send-off.

know I shouldn't say it in this day and age but I'm absolutely useless without a man. There isn't a moment I don't miss Charlie. I never get anything right. I can't work out the buttons on the TV remote control. Parking the car is a nightmare even though it's only a Toyota Prius and it isn't that big.