Quotes About Attachment

When you're used to hearing purring and suddenly it's gone, it's hard to silence the blaring sound of sadness.

She clawed her way into my heart and wouldn't let go.

Sometimes we can't let go of the pain because we think it's the only thing holding us together.

The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.

A friend dies or leaves us: we feel as if a limb was cut off.

The love that makes you feel light as a feather is the love that makes your heart feel heaviest when it goes.

But it was home. And though home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.

L'odio creava fra loro un legame più saldo di quanto non avrebbe potuto fare l'amore.

Her own terror rushed upon me, and in that moment of fear, - the most terrible fear a man can experience, - I knew that in inexpressible ways she was dear to me.

He alone rated himself beyond diamonds and rubies. Diamonds and rubies are gone, spread out on the deck to be washed away by a bucket of sea-water, and he does not even know that the diamonds and rubies are gone. He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss. Don't you see? And what have you to say?

his great love for John Thornton that he lost his head.

of course she promptly loved him, or thought she did, which amounts to the same thing.

Her always is mine

I had grown to love the very city in all its decrepit grandeur. I had walked every inch of it by now. I knew it in the soles of my feet, in the sturdy muscles of my calves. Surely the finding mattered more than the losing.

Mayhap Bao was right, and I did fall in love as easily as other people fall out of a boat; but I loved in earnest.

In the end, I didn't know why I loved her to the point of distraction. I knew only that I did.

It sneaks up on you, Anne-the habit. And after all emotion is gone and logic takes over, the habit is still there. For the rest of your life

Don't you know you take my heart with you everywhere you go?

Attachments are attractions we feel toward objects or people that we believe have brought us pleasure

Aversion, the feeling of repulsion for certain objects or events that we believe bring discomfort, is attachment in reverse

Men are chained to that which causes suffering because they desire to be so, because they love their chains, because they think their little dark prison of self is sweet and beautiful, and they are afraid that if they desert that prison they will lose all that is real and worth having.

oxytocin is the "god hormone.

We love our excuses. They are just as much our babies as our ideas are.

The mind is like an object that picks up dust. The object doesn't know, any more than the mind does, why what clings to it clings.