“I am the owner of my shoulders, the tenant of my hips.”
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“I am owner of my might, and I am so when I now myself as unique.”
Max Stirner book The Ego and Its Own
In the unique one the owner himself returns into his creative nothing, of which he is born. Every higher essence above me, be it God, be it man, weakens the feeling of my uniqueness, and pales only before the sun of this consciousness. If I concern myself for myself, the unique one, then my concern rests on its transitory, mortal creator, who consumes himself, and I may say: All things are nothing to me.
Dover 2005, p. 366
The Ego and Its Own (1845)
“Death rides on my shoulder, death walks in my footsteps. I am death.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)
Théodore Guérin (1798–1856) Catholic saint and nun from France
Letter to the Very Reverend A. Martin, Vincennes, 1844-10-03.
Context: I must close now, for I am obliged to go to Terre Haute, where I am called to court to explain my conduct and defend myself against accusations relative to counterfeit money that was said to have been received from me. One has to come to America to be treated thus! Sometimes I am so disheartened with this country that I feel as if I were carrying on my shoulders the weight of its highest mountains, and in my heart all the thorns of its wilderness. Pray for me occasionally that I may not lose courage; nay, more, that I may be brave enough to hold up others who falter sometimes.
Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.”
Raymond Chandler book Farewell, My Lovely
Source: Farewell, My Lovely
“It's not on my great shoulders, it is amazing head on my great shoulders that maintains all.”
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) American writer
Atlas, on bearing the burden of maintaining the worlds, in Ch. 4
Space Chantey (1968)
Context: I tried to tell you, but words will not convey it. One has to be inside it to comprehend the magnitude. … It was the beginning. It's the only thing there is. But it was haphazard for so many aeons that it spooks me to think about it. There were always three or four maintaining it, but there was no one person strong enough to take it all over. "Somewhere there must be someone strong enough to take it all over," I said to myself in a direful moment, but the strongest person I could think of was myself. I've been doing it ever since. … By my attention I hold it all in being. Nothing exists unless it is perceived. If perception fails for a moment, then that thing fails forever. … I hate to be misjudged. They say that I bear it all on my shoulders, as though I were a stud or a balk. It's not on my great shoulders, it is amazing head on my great shoulders that maintains all.