Quotes About Attachment

I don't want to own something that you can't take into your apartment at night.

Whenever I am applying myself to something, I can't help but be part of it.

If anyone is on my husband's arm, it's going to be me.

I want Arsenal to want me. If they didn't want me, it would hurt.

Al principio de la pasión, los obstáculos asustan a las personas sin experiencia, y los que encontraban los dos amantes se parecían mucho a las ataduras con que los liliputienses habían atado a Gulliver. Eran cosas sin importancia que al multiplicarse hacían imposible todo impulso y anulaban los más violentos deseos.

Hay ciertas personas que no tienen ya el mismo valor una vez separadas de los rostros, de las cosas y de los lugares que les sirven de marco.

Plus sa vie est infâme,plus l'homme y tient; elle est alors une protestation,une vengeance de tous les instants.

Manche Menschen sind wie Nullen, sie brauchen eine Zahl, die vor ihnen steht, und ihr Nichts erlangt dann zehnfachen Wert.

Paris est un sujet d'envie pour ceux qui ne l'ont jamais vu ; de bonheur ou de malheur (selon la fortune) pour ceux qui l'habitent, mais toujours de regrets pour ceux qui sont forcés de le quitter.

We live in an age, madame, when nothing is sure," he said. "Even thrones rise and fall in France with fearful rapidity. Fifteen years have wreaked their will on a great empire, a monarchy, and a revolution. No one can now dare to count upon the future. You know my attachment to the cause of legitimacy. Suppose some catastrophe; would you not be glad to have a friend in the conquering party?" "Undoubtedly," she said, smiling.

Agathe rose; her scissors and work fell at her feet; she went and kissed Joseph's head, and dropped two tears on his hair. "He is your passion, that fellow," said the painter. "We all have our hopeless passions

objects that he very rarely either looked at or thought about, though the loss of them would have caused him to go half mad with rage and chagrin.

Y cuando no tenga más delirio… me querrás todavía?

Will you keep this?" he asked, holding up the pendant. "Please. Don't show it to your folks. But keep it, please. I'm not asking for anything else. You're going away. God knows when I'll see you again. I can accept what you say about your feelings for me. I have to. But what harm will it do if you take this, and then at least, I'll know that something I got for you is with you.

Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.

Closure is cowardice. When you lose someone you love, the memory of them maintains a tenacious adhesiveness to the heart

Marvelous, marvelous! All sentient beings have the Tathagata's wisdom and virtue, but they fail to realize it because they cling to deluded thoughts and attachments.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

Il n'y a rien de coupable. L'instant n'est pas coupable, c'est seulement de vouloir le retenir qui n'est pas permis. Seul le fait de se cramponner à ce qui ne se laisse pas retenir... (89)

Let go the ones who just likes you, because they will leave you for the one they love, but don't let go the ones who love you, because they will never leave you for anyone they like

Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you.

Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.

Come on Pop' I said as best I could 'don't go back now' I felt rotten, watching him go back like that.

Yet I didn't much want to go home.