"He took the last seat, as usual, a subtle reminder of what he was and what he had become."

Status, Isolation, Identity, Change

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"He took the last seat, as usual, a subtle reminder of what he was and what he had become."

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"The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

Status, Desire, Dignity, Comfort

"If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

Status, Royalty, Control, Health

"The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of material accumulation that should instead be only one of many factors determining the direction of our lives under a more truthful, more broadly defined conception of ourselves."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

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"I am still not used to being the possessor of such a grand title. I believe I shall have to start wearing a purple satin turban and carrying a lorgnette."

Mary Balogh, Canadian Author

Status, Humor, Pride, Identity, Irony

"Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

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"Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Status, Fame, Respect, Desire, Men

"Dignity is pride's barometer."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

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"He took the last seat, as usual, a subtle reminder of what he was and what he had become."

Faraaz Kazi, Indian Author

Status, Isolation, Identity, Change

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"But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best."

Optimism

"One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic."

Realism

"Silence has its own language and in that silence he found words within himself; words for her, words for him and words for them."

Communication

"But a cock does not enter a hen it enters a meow-meow!"

Humor

"As he turns around and her eyes meet his, she lets go off the breath that she had been holding back. All the words she had practised to say when the moment arrived, dissolve at the tip of her tongue. All the things she wanted him to know escape her in the thick blanket of nostalgia that wraps itself around her."

Nostalgia

"Eye contact is way more intimate than words will ever be."

Affection

"Our love is the reason romance was created."

Love

"He had never smoked but then had he ever loved? Life made him love and love made him smoke."

Emotion

"Rahul had wondered how someone could love their beloved so much that their dedication to them became one of the wonders of the world."

Love

"Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult."

Separation