Quotes About Attachment

We had been pulled apart by absence, but that same absence had shackled us together for life.

I watched the gulls and looked over at Lady Liberty. I thought about what Harry must be feeling because she wouldn't see her again, not like this, anyway. I wanted her to know it would be better, more beautiful on the other side, but it was sad because we can't help loving what's around us even if it is grasping and attachment to the things that don't really matter when you take a higher spiritual perspective.

The truth is that the idea of home and the idea of our mother and father were inseparable.

She's still in love with you," Violet said. "I know." "Or maybe she's in love with the idea of me on the other side of the country.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

I never fall in love.

You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year.

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

Amy Pond is, er...I've sort of fallen in love with Amy Pond.

I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

Also, if I did join another show, I'd end up burning my bridges to the show I love most.

you have to love something before you can hate it.

Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally - the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra - but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Those whom we first love we seldom marry

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.