Quotes About Attachment

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

There is nothing like the land you belong to claiming you back. But everywhere the earth is the same. -Old David

I was shocked at the revelation of her vaulting ambition, her greed. I should have loathed her or, knowing what kind of a person she was, I should have realized the futility of any personal attachment, the impossibility of its maturing into something warm, human enduring. By then, I had known a bit of the prostitute's psychology, the ruthlessness which marked her relationship with men but I ignored these.

Asked about his beautiful gold pocket watch, Woody Allen said :"I'm very attached to it, my grandfather sold it to me on his deathbed!"

She loved this city. She just didn't like it much.

You are a brick tied to me that's dragging me down. Strike a match and I'll burn you to the ground.

Kids are like heroin -- an injection of pain when they're around, but even when they're not around it's like that next fix. You just can't stop thinking about it.

Partire? Per andare dove? [...] Questi non sono tempi da lasciare il proprio paese!»

How many relationships endure not from love but because one or both partners fear solitude more than they fear mayhem?

Y luego esa falta de montañas que para un vasco, quieras que no, es mortal.

Por ella, en recuerdo de sus cuentos de brujas que tan feliz me hicieron, puse a mi perra bruja. ... Me la regalo un amigo, Miguel Ángel, y me jodió la vida porque lo que tenía que ser para siempre resultó efímero. Buda ya lo dijo: el que tiene tres amores, tendrá tres dolores; el que tiene dos, dos; y el que tiene uno, uno. Mejor no tener ninguno.

Pero por qué me preocupa a mí Colombia si ya no es mía, es ajena?

But now that I am in love with a place which doesn't care how I look, or if I'm happy, happy is how I look

I suddenly became conscious that, for the first time in my whole life, I was essential to somebody. I could not enter a room without realising that he was instantly aware of my presence; I could not leave a room without knowing that he would at once feel and regret my absence.

I felt total bad about it, and empty. Granpa said he knew how I felt, for he was feeling the same way. But Granpa said everything you lost which you had loved give you that feeling. He said the only way round it was not to love anything, which was worse because you would feel empty all the time. Granpa

Nous sommes fous de vouloir éterniser les sentiments: ils sont aussi passagers que nous. Les choses finissent et nous refusons de l'admettre.

Sa iubesti pe cineva care te iubeste este narcisism. Sa iubesti pe cineva care nu te iubeste, asta da, e dragoste.

Van iemand houden die ook van jou houdt is eigenliefde. Van iemand houden die niet van jou houdt is liefde.

Fuir le bonheur de peur qu'il ne se sauve.

El amor dura lo que tiene que durar, me da lo mismo.

Aquello que he considerado como apego a la propiedad, no es más que el instinto carnal del campesino, hijo de campesinos, nacido de aquellos que, desde hace siglos, interrogan con angustia el horizonte.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

I want my chirfugging goose back!

I suppose not everybody can bear to give up everything they have ever known, however bad their life is.