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Quotes About Attachment

We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
~ John Keats
I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind. - To Sorrow
~ John Keats
Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
~ John Keats
I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving.
~ John Keats
You are to me an object so intensely desirable that the air I breathe in a room empty of you is unhealthy
~ John Keats
I can bear to die - I cannot bear to leave her.
~ John Keats
I would have borne it as I would bear death if fate was in that humour: but I should as soon think of choosing to die as to part from you.
~ John Keats
Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you: how much more deeply then must I feel for you knowing you love me. My Mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it. I never felt my Mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment -- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses.
~ John Keats
I may see you at a greater distance, I may not be able to appropriate you so closely to myself. Were you to loose a favorite bird from the cage, how would your eyes ache after it as long as it was in sight; when out of sight you would recover a little.
~ John Keats
The winter loves me," he retorted, and then, disliking the whimsical sound of that, added, "I mean as much as you can say a season can love. What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.
~ John Knowles
I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore
~ John Lennon
I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me.
~ John Lennon
Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.
~ Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.
~ Guru Nanak
... strong bonds are forged in high emotional temperatures.
~ Dervla Murphy
(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.
~ Bob Costas
Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.
~ Kabir Bedi
Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
~ John Dewey
It has to go to the level of emotional connection, where you feel without it you're lost.
~ Hosain Rahman
This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But on it's emotional level it is purely a fiction. It becomes what you let it become.
~ Kent Nerburn
Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
~ Hanna Rosin
I can be an emotional eater. Of late, I have been doing that, yes. It started when I was very little. My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.
~ Janet Jackson
I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
~ Ai Weiwei
Homes-the very idea of homeownership-evoke a strong emotional reaction in all of us.
~ Spencer Rascoff