Quotes About Attachment

He grew up never letting his mother wash his hockey equipment, preferring instead to air it outdoors, because he loved the smell so much.

At the end of the day, the only thing you'll sigh over after making a poet fall for you is that you could not become his first love.

I want to be tangled up in all her strings.

It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.

You came back to me because I was a habit.

And then she left, my peace of mind tucked into her pocket along with her nice little notebook.

Loving someone is easy but losing someone is hard.

If people give up their attachment to expansive government, they will feel free to fight the income tax.

People are not the Source of Love. They are the object that we give love to.

I went to New Orleans for the first time for Wild at Heart, and I kept going back to make more movies there. I've become very close to the city and part of me does feel like a New Orleanian.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

I love you, Kaylee. More than I've ever loved anyone. More than I will ever love anyone. If I could freeze this moment in time and never have to let you go, I would do it without a second thought.

I lost track of day and night too. My time was divided into Dimitri and not-Dimitri. He was my world. When he wasn't there, the moments were agony.

We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.

Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired.

When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.

She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.

The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.

The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.

Pretending you are not in love with someone only delays the time of you getting over them.

Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.