Quotes About Attachment

We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

I think a challenge with every sitcom is, how do you maintain things that people are attached to without becoming so reiterative that it just feels like you're sort of watching a reenactment of previous episodes?

It's so hard getting rid of something that means something to you, as many of the pieces on our site do for me.

The heart wants what it wants, and you know, if you're not careful, you can find yourself in a situation where you give your heart away, and it can get broken.

Footballers' 'lack of loyalty,' for instance, is not an indication of players' moral delinquency. Instead, the capacity to move on quickly without forming lasting attachments is a skill that the contemporary capitalist world inculcates and relies upon.

I LOVE Australia! Its like my second home.

I learned years ago that love could be temporary and still be love.

All of us who are human beings are in the image of God. But to be in his likeness belongs only to those who by great love have attached their freedom to God.

memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.

Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.

Commitment means losing yourself to gain something temporary. Nothing lasts. Not looks. Not love.

Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?

To a teenager, it cannot be true love if her family approves of him.

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.

Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory

It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone.

Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

If we define value as emotions - and emotional engagement...i.e. love!

I am no longer in love, but I still have my jealousy.

Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.

Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.