Quotes About Attachment

All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.

As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go.

What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love.

What real job - what political world - would want Spencer Pratt, with the stigma I've attached to my name?

Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.

I mean, the last thing I want to do is be involved in politics.

Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.

I'll let her go. I won't let her go. I have to let her go. I can't let her go. I can let her go. I don't... want to let her go.

I love you; I love you and I don't care that you're my sister; don't be with him, don't want him, don't go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me. I don't know how to be without you.

That's what you want: you want projects that you fall in love with. I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.

I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him

I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But, you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever though; so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.

You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don't want it to last.

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

Her memory's your love. You want no other.

People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

It didn't take elaborate experiments to deduce that an infant would die from want of food. But it took centuries to figure out that infants can and do perish from want of love.

The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.

If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?

Even if I had stayed she wouldn't have ever wanted me. She didn't want me for anything more than a summer fling. I was a way of moving on for her.