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Quotes About Attachment

Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Habit is everything, even in love.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Love is not a sentimental attachment to a human being; love is a mode of conduct that comes from the heart.
~ Ma Jaya
One is very weak when one is in love.
~ Madame de La Fayette
There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.
~ Max Frisch
Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love
~ Michael Ondaatje
I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
When I like something, I love it, but then I'll let it go completely.
~ Nicholas Hoult
The prisoner grows to love his chains.
~ Plato
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.
~ Ovid
Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation.
~ Rajneesh
What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never knew that I could love someone the way that I love you.
~ Ben Rector
It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.
~ Albert Einstein
I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.
~ Anita Shreve
Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.
~ Dalai Lama
Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
~ E. Lockhart
Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
~ George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.
~ Arnold Arre, After Eden
Don't love anything that can be taken away.
~ Ron Rash, Serena
This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.
~ Philip José Farmer
There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
~ Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl