Quotes About Attachment

Old loves are dropped when new ones come

What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?

Los mortales deberían contraer entre sí sentimientos amorosos moderados, sin llegar hasta los tuétanos del alma, y los afectos del corazón deberían ser fáciles de desatar para rechazarlos o apartarlos

It was hard to love something so much and want it to disappear at the same time

Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.

As my intimacy with his family grew, I became part of the world which he sought to escape; I became one of the bonds which held him.

But as I drove away and turned back in the car to take what promised to be my last view of the house, I felt that I was leaving a part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the netherworld.

But as I drove away and turned back in the car to take what promised to be my last view of the house, I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it

FOR WE ARE like tree trunks in the snow . In appearance they lie sleekly and a light push should be enough to set them rolling . No , it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.   Unhappiness

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.

I knew that what was left of me would always love you, but never in quite the same way.

Just as he still cared more for her than for any other creature, so did he more intensely and frequently hate her.

I'm afraid I'm in love with you and that's not the best thing that could happen.

Unlike lovers they possessed no past; unlike man and wife, they possessed no future; yet up to in this morning Nicole had liked Abe better than anyone except Dick--and he had been heavy, belly-frightened, with love for her for years.

temperamentally unfitted for romance

The feel of her head against his shoulder, of her familiar body, sent a shock of emotion over him. His arms holding her had a tendency to tighten around her.

to have and to hold, and, in time - let go

But, knowing they had had the best of love, they clung to what remained. Love lingered – by way of long conversations at night into those stark hours when the mind thins and sharpens and the borrowings from dreams become the stuff of all life.

Saying good-by, Dick was aware of Elsie Speers' full charm, aware that she meant rather more to him than merely a last unwilingly relinquished fragment of Rosemary. He could possibly have made up Rosemary - he could never have made up her mother.

Young Anthony had one picture of his father and mother together—so often had it faced his eyes in childhood that it had acquired the impersonality of furniture, but every one who came into his bedroom regarded it with interest.

I've decided to give you up, she said. Dick started - had he said anything to imply that she possessed any part of him?

there seemed to be some necessity of taking all or nothing; it was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves.

He had shown it so often that I think it was more real to him now than the house itself.