"...Pawn Themselves To The World."

“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed... What we call worldliness simply consists of such people who, if one may so express it, pawn themselves to the world.” Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death