Quotes About Attachment

A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much

I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it.

The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.

Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth.

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

If you don't love your characters who else will?

Basic psychological theory holds that we learn to trust, to feel safe — or not — when we're so young. It happens by the time we're two years old, and it depends on how well our basic needs are met. Whether people fed us, held us, comforted us, whether we were in a place where we felt safe.

classed as having an avoidant dismissive attachment style. Paul lives behind walls because he grew up in a family where everyone lived behind walls, so what's the problem? Being emotionally shut down is normal to Paul. And if he lived alone, he'd be fine, but he isn't alone. He has a wife and a bunch of kids, all of whom need him.

Our human brains—in fact, most mammals' brains—are built for co-regulation.

In theory an addictive relationship can be established with just about anything, so long as the substance, person, or activity relieves the threat of overt depression

As Freud noted: "A thing which has not been understood inevitably reappears; like an unlaid ghost, it cannot rest until the mystery has been resolved and the spell broken." . . . in ambivalent attachment, a mother vacillates inexplicably from being loving and tender to angry and threatening.. Faced with this unpredictable inconsistency, a child tries to appease the mother, anxious to control and monitor her shifting moods.

For the Phantom, there is only one girl. For Sam, there is only one horse.