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Quotes About Attachment

I'm addicted to something at all times. Like, it's always music, but maybe sometimes it's a pair of pants or something else. That's just how my personality works.
~ Mac Miller
The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature
~ John Bowlby
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
~ Bodhidharma
We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.
~ Mooji
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.
~ William Bartram
Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?
~ Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
~ Bertrand Russell
The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.
~ John Cowper Powys
A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.
~ James Allen
There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.
~ Charles Nodier
For it is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value most.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
~ A.S. Byatt, Possession
We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.
~ Swami Vivekananda
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.
~ Thomas Malthus
Ko kiti priplavajo v vaše srce, ga nikoli ve? ne zapustijo.
~ Živa Vivianaia Dor
Where there is asakti [infatuation], there accusations cannot refrain from happening. That is indeed the nature of asakti [infatuation].
~ Dada Bhagwan
It is the nature of the circumstances to disperse. If there is attachment with the circumstance, there will be abhorrence when they get dispersed.
~ Dada Bhagwan
Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight.
~ The Beatles
Only what is seen, appreciated, and loved will be missed in its absence which makes humans creatures of habit
~ Aloysius Jnr
Like a tenacious ivy, your presence clings onto the drab wall of my existence. Cling harder onto me love, like a blood sucking bed-bug who is never satiated.
~ Malak El Halabi
Love is not all about loving everything perfect, it is when someones corrosive nature is the only thing that glues you to them which you wished it were never there.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
We are not our thought we are just prisoner of our Identification of thought
~ Sushil Singh