Quotes About Attachment

An essential paradox of the female condition is that for women to really be free, we have to understand the ways in which nature designed us to be attached to and dependent upon love, connection, intimacy, and the right kind of Eros in the hands of the right kind of man or woman.

THE FEAR OF LOSS OF LOVE

The heart, with all its potential, loses its balance too easily when it loves a creature. It throws itself upon the creature loved and wants to possess it; and possessiveness kills. It holds on to the creature so passionately that it loses sight of the creator. Moreover it ruins the object of its love by its obsession with it. It ruins it, makes it a slave.

Only very late do we learn the price of the risk of believing, because only very late do we face up to the idea of death. This is what is difficult. Believing truly means dying. Dying to everything: to our reasoning, to our plans, to our past, to our childhood dreams, to our attachment to earth, and sometimes even to the sunlight, as at the moment of our physical death.

To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.

Those fibers join a man to his surroundings;

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

Si me hubiera detenido a pensarlo, hubiera comprendido que mi devoción no era más que una fuente de sufrimiento. Quizás por eso lo adoraba más, por esa estupidez eterna de perseguir a los que nos hacen daño -C. R. Z.

The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I didn't know where to put it.

Mensen zonder een eigen leven moeten zich altijd in dat van anderen mengen.

The very thought that the poor creature could still hold the slightest bit of affection for him or for the world seem too cruel.

Quando cheguei à rua ainda levava o seu rosto,a sua voz e o seu cheiro cravados na alma.

Amint azon kezdünk el gondolkodni, hogy szeretünk-e valakit, akár örökre le is mondhatunk róla.

Es curioso como juzgamos a los demás y no nos damos cuenta de lo miserable de nuestro desdén hasta que nos falta, hasta que nos los quitan. Nos los quitan porque nunca han sido nuestros.

I loro erano baci appassionati di chi si appartiene e non si cura del resto del mondo.

Alguien dijo una vez que en el momento en que te paras a pensar si quieres a alguien, ya has dejado de querrerle para siempre

Se solo avessi riflettuto, avrei capito che quella dedizione assoluta era un'inesauribile fonte di pena; ma forse era proprio perché soffrivo tanto che la adoravo sempre di più, schiavo dell'eterna stupidaggine di stare dietro a chi ci fa del male.

Remember me, Daniel, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

in that stupid and fatal way some men imagine they love a woman they can't tell apart from an apparition.

Recuérdame, Daniel, aunque sea en un rincón y a escondidas. No me dejes ir.

I thought about the loneliness that would take hold of me that night when I said good-bye to her, once I had run out of tricks or stories to make her stay with me any longer. I thought about how little I had to offer her and how much I wanted from her.

Sometimes memories follow you wherever you go-you don't need to take them with you.

Well then, since we're playing at telling the truth, let me tell you that you're always going to be alone. You'll be alone because you don't know how to love or how to share. You're like this house. It makes my hair stand on end. I'm not surprised your lady in white left you or that everyone else has too. You don't love and you don't allow yourself to be loved. p269