Quotes About Attachment

At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.

At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're gone...

At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone. For I still love you with the whole of my heart. I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that's all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that's all we have—to hold on tight until the dawn.

In its essence, the longing for family, and the ravenousness that the loss of family creates in us, isn't just for belonging: it's for the grace that abides in serving those we love.

Those words of his are mine forever now.

When we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.

But there are some people, some loves, that worry every goodbye, and leaving them is like leaving the country of your birth.

And because I was in love with her, I felt trapped by those fictions.

There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.

This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.

The worldly stuff is not always going to be there and it could be taken away at any moment.

I've worn jeans until they're ripped all the way around the crotch and I can't wear them any longer. You get so attached to jeans, they're like old friends.

I'm a pack rat. There's only a couple pairs of tights I've worn throughout my career that I don't have. I save everything.

I've a belt that I have worn for every single stand-up comedy session since I was 19. I fear if I ever lose it, my career would crumble. That's my one OCD.

I haven't worn jewelry since one of the front teeth I had made into an earring became no longer necessary because I lost the ear.

While at Sunderland, I was No. 13, which I'd worn since I was 18, so it proved to be a decent number for me.

I was worried if you adopted a foster child, someone from the birth family could still come and take her back. I was afraid that any child in foster care might have suffered such trauma or neglect that she would be impossible to reach. I'm not proud of these fears. But I understand now when others ask me the same questions.

I was worried - I wasn't sure I had the maternal instinct. But the minute my son came out, he was my favorite person on earth. I was crazily in tune with him, and I knew we were going to be fine.

I was my mother's favorite, but my - 'cause she worried about me the most.

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.