Quotes About Attachment

I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.

I know some people who've gotten tattoos that they probably shouldn't have, like the name of somebody they were dating, and that never ends well.

One thing 'Game of Thrones' has taught us all is to guard against too much emotional investment.

Taoism taught me to focus on the process and not to be attached to preconceived ideas of what I thought the outcome should be.

I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.

I'm incredibly sentimental, although I'm not one of those people who doesn't chuck anything out; I don't keep used tea bags - just special mementos.

As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.

Milan is not just a team for me. It is part of my life.

I had never thought I could love another person this much. I also never thought I'd live in such fear of losing another person.

I had never thought I could love another person this much. I also never thought I'd live in such fear of losing another person. Was that how everyone in love felt? Did they all cling tightly to their beloved and wake up terrified in the middle of the night, afraid of being alone? Was that an inevitable way of life when you loved so deeply? Or was it just those of us who walked on a precipice who lived in such a panic? I

I'll just love you whether you want me to or not.

I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy ever will.

i could love dearly and yet not dearly enough to fear or suffer their loss.

I believe a cast-off dog does not easily forget the life it had before.

But if she was going to live in a damn jungle, she preferred it be a damn jungle in Georgia, she always said, and never saw any reason to elaborate on that.

Even if you become a very fine actor, if you are inordinately attached to your act, you will notice that you feel empty much of the time, for you will realize that the critics' acclaim and the loud applause from your audience are offered in response to your act rather than to the natural you.

In this torment, my mother learned not to hold onto the things she loved because then no one could take them away from her.

The more possessions you have, the more you have to make room for, take care of, protect, sometimes insure, and sometimes worry about losing them to theft, fire, or other catastrophes. Yet when you start to get rid of your unneeded possessions, you can rejoice in a newfound freedom, for you are no longer "owned" by all your possessions.

When men break up they want to remain friends. Why? Why can't they just get lost?

I slept lightly, expecting Fern to awaken during the night missing her truelove. Not that I wanted Fern to be heartbroken. I didn't want her to love someone all her life and then not love or want them at all.

Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-a-long.

It was like trying to break up with the color orange, or Wednesday, or silent e. It was the most passionate and tumultuous relationship I'd ever known.

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Dog love is blind. For that matter, dog love is stupid.