Quotes About Attachment

I tend to latch on to things and not let go.

I am a binge reader, with a tendency to throw myself at a writer, immerse myself in their work.

Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place.

I have a lot of love for Tennessee.

We take things to remind us of home. I think my favourite is a stuffed dog that was homemade from a picture of my little Jack Russell terrier.

Sometimes a book I'm reading is so terrific that when I finish, I simply turn back to page one and start all over again to see what I've missed, to experience it again, more deeply, or because I don't want to let it go.

I hate bags. I never carry a bag. I am terrified of bags. I don't want to have to be responsible for that many things at one time.

I thought I'd lost a pair of earrings once. They were, like, $50,000. I was terrified.

Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.

I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.

Every time you cuddle with your children, you're likely to be driving down your testosterone.

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

I stayed there until the fire died. So it would not have to die alone.

Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.

I will not let thee go. I hold thee by too many bands: Thou sayest farewell, and lo! I have thee by the hands, And will not let thee go.

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

The great source of terror in infancy is solitude. William James (1890)

Emotional deprivation is at the core of neurotic addiction and abnormal dependency.

Early in their lives they learned to distrust positive verbal expressions and even physical affection, because more often than not these feelings covertly expressed their parents' need and desperation.

HUNGER AND THE MYTH OF FAMILY LOVE

Many children do not feel love for their parents either. After they have been damaged in their early years, they tend to have a self-centered, exploitive interest but no real feeling for their parents as people. Because their original affectionate feeling toward their parents was rejected, they become withholding and inward.

When children imagine themselves as one with their parent to protect against the feelings of hurt, pain, and rejection from that parent, they also incorporate the parental attitudes and behaviors that are causing them distress. In this manifestation of the fantasy bond, children parent themselves in the same destructive ways their parents did.

There can be no [ego] desire if there is no object. The state of no-desire is enlightenment.

One without attachment is free from sorrow.