Quotes About Attachment

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

We always come back to our first love.

The chains of love are never binding as when the links are made of gold.

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.

At last I know what love is really like.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

...Him that I love, I wish to be free--even from me

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

The pleasure of love is in loving.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

Alas, love is too regional.

True love never dies, even if you have found a new love, the sweet memory of the past will continue to hunt you for the rest of your life.

The ones that you love the most are usually the ones that hurt you the most.