Quotes About Attachment

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. KAHLIL GIBRAN

In the brain's world, better to have a negative bond than the existential death of no bond at all. And

the heart of all attachment is fear regulation

I can't leave you alone." He touched his lips to the smoothly rising slope of her shoulder. "The thought of you stumbles the beat of my heart and arouses such a hunger in me that I must seek you out or groan beneath the torture of it. You have chained me to you, Erienne. The beast is your slave." -Lord Saxton

Dad's Buick—what a great car it had been all these years—

she was never, I felt, truly emotionally warm towards anyone

They 'possess each other like demon lovers, alternately clinging together as one and then separating in furious mutual rejection. They encircle one another in a bond of steel …

For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.

It seems that many men, and some women, cannot give up the illusion of possessing another person. The idea of that person—and "idea" is related etymologically to the word "idol"—becomes more important, more potent than the actual living creature. It is much safer to love an idol than a real person who is capable of surprising you, loving you and demanding love in return, and maybe one day leaving you.

If you love something, know that it will leave on a day you are far from ready.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't hold our hatreds closer than our loves.

You can always come back to a place, even if it isn't there anymore.

No matter how much I know he's hurt me, it's still difficult just to switch off my feelings for him. It would be easier to hate him, but I can't.

Even if your children ever come home, they really aren't yours anymore." -Leia Organa Solo

Honest to god, Clare, you act like the dress is more important than you being shot!" Of course it is! It's a Versace, you idiot! Bring help! I'm going to save this dress at all costs." - Sam to Clare

People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility.

I want to hold on tight to everything and everyone I cherished and, at the same time, saw in a way I never had before that living on this earth, growing older, and growing up in the true sense of the word is really about learning how to let go.

While you are conscious of being a Buddha, you are not truly a Buddha, because you are ensnared by the idea. You are not empty.

I'm jealous. I suppose, having been with him for decades, we can understand the Earl's feelings.

Why won't you go away?" "I have a mission. So why? Why do I…long so…to be with you?

Earl…why? Why do you want Allen so badly?

That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.

Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it--unable quite to let each other go.

Blanky. Such an innocuous name for something that had now cemented itself as the locus of my grief and horror and rage.