Quotes About Attachment

To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go

Of all the animals we have ever kept, these Albatross are the ones to which I have become most attached. I really love them and respect their independence and jaunty ways. This marks the end of a period of acquaintance with real aristocrats of life.

Although I may not be yours, I can never be another's.

There was always scope for fear,so long as anything I love remained behind

It was my temper to avoid a crowd, and to attach myself fervently to a few.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless, and free from the misery I now feel. Oh! my creator, make me happy; let me feel gratitude towards you for one benefit! Let me see that I excite the sympathy of some existing thing.

There was always scope for fear; so long as anything I loved remained behind.

La vida es obstinada... se aferra con más fuerza allí donde más se odia.

Alas! Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Qué mudables son nuestros sentimientos, y cuán extraño es ese apego tenaz que tenemos a la vida incluso cuando estamos sufriendo horriblemente! Preparé otra vela con parte de mi indumentaria

Qué mudables son nuestros sentimientos, y cuán extraño es ese apego tenaz que tenemos a la vida incluso cuando estamos sufriendo horriblemente!

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless and free from the misery I now feel.

We hold on to the shitty things the tightest, for some reason. And this is the shittiest thing ever. "Are

mothers are really just emotional hostages.

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.

Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.

It's been a long week," Nate said. "Don't leave again. Don't leave me with these people." "Which people?" "Any people." "I don't count as people?" "Of course not," he said. "It's been all feelings and love. I want to go back to numbness and avoidance. You're great at that stuff.

I will always love Snoopy and nothing can stop that

He didn't own her—he had simply borrowed a part of her. That was what she was going to keep telling herself.

I will have no claim to make except that I need you so much. And that I love you. I told you once not to consider it. Now I'll use it as a tin cup.

When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to you and to your life.

Por su parte, él descubrió aquella noche que su reconquistado amor a la existencia no le era otorgado por haber sentido otra vez deseo de ella, sino que el deseo se suscitó luego de haber recuperado su mundo; el apego al valor y al sentido del mismo.