Quotes About Attachment

Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

We need to be free if we are to love.

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.

Every person in therapy has a love disorder.

I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.

The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security and fulfillment in ourselves.

I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.

Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?

She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.

The real drug, I came to believe, was love.

We are to enjoy what we have while we have it, but we are never to get to the point where we think we could not love without it.

If I make a new bag I love, I don't keep it.

Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.

you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain

Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.

This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying.

They say everyone needs something to love.

Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must.

No one teaches you how to do this. How do you let go of someone who you love so much?

Not being able to live without someone is not love. It's need.

Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can't enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in L.A.

Love makes a person do strange things.