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Quotes About Attachment

How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?
~ Melina Marchetta
If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.
~ Peter S. Beagle
If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic.
~ Pierre Dukan
A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
~ Publilius Syrus
Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.
~ Orson Scott Card
Man loves most that which is his own.
~ Henry Adams
The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.
~ Henry David Thoreau
But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.
~ Hesiod
With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.
~ Jami Attenberg
Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own.
~ Johann Baptist Metz
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.
~ John Donne
There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.
~ John Steinbeck
The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.
~ John Steinbeck
Love is such an arbitrary thing. I love my mom. I love pancakes.
~ Doug Stanhope
For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago. I don't know how to explain it.
~ Patrick Stump
I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play - where I could go home if I needed to.
~ Bo Jackson
When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
~ Beth Ditto
My mom wore the pants in the family, for sure. I always say, that I spent my childhood trying to get the love and attention of my mom, and now I can't get rid of it.
~ Jill Sobule
My favorite shirt to sleep in is the one my birth mom was wearing when she died in my arms. Morbid for some perhaps but comforting to me.
~ Jillian Barberie
When there is money in your hand and not in your heart, it will not harm you even if it is a lot; and when it is in your heart, it will harm you even if there is none in your hands.
~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.
~ Gautama Buddha