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Quotes About Attachment

To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.
~ Mohsin Hamid
I wondered what that would feel like. What would it be like to have someone want me that much that he…just grabbed me and held on as hard as he could.
~ Molly O'Keefe
And that the surest way to bring destruction upon the things she wanted was to want them in the first place. Her
~ Molly O'Keefe
I'm not letting you go," I told her. "And it's selfish and wrong and sooner or later you're going to wake up and realize that I can't love you the way you should be loved. Or want to be loved, and it doesn't matter.
~ Molly O'Keefe
I'm scared that the way I want you will tie me to you when I know that's not what either of us wants. Or needs. But I'm must so…" I trailed off because there were so many words that could fill in that blank. Lonely. Needy. Broken.
~ Molly O'Keefe
And so, like a courtesan, forced to perform the dance of the seven veils, I grudgingly reveal the names, one by one, of the cities that have carved their names into me, leaving behind the scar tissue that forms the bulk of who I am.
~ Monique Truong
When people die, you always hear the expression, "You can't take it with you.
~ Morrie Schwartz
True knowledge comes from the upward path which leads to the eternal Fire; error, defeat and death result from following the lower path of worldly attachment.
~ Unknown
r?ht?ma ayak bast??? ilk günden beri yer de?i?tirip duran duygular?na, "Yurduna Dönmek" sözü az geliyor. Dönmek, ba?l? ba??na bir memleket...
~ Unknown
Love has nothing to do with keeping those you love around.
~ Unknown
Money is an evolutionary, infantile stagnation in brain development. At the expense of money, a person seeks to return to childhood and stay there.
~ Unknown
Romantic love is the most mature type of love, where the most important thing is the presence of a loved one.
~ Unknown
Some people claim that expectation is the source of all misery, while others claim that attachment is the root cause.
~ Unknown
The more you expect, the more you become a slave and chained down by your desires of wishing more for yourself.
~ Unknown
We all love being in heaven, but no one is ready to leave the world just yet.
~ Unknown
We became attached to the worldly possessions, as we were not capable of penetrating through the sky and peek at what was prepared for us.
~ Unknown
You can desire something only if you wish to possess it in the end. Therefore, love is a possession!
~ Unknown
El ser humano se encuentra cegado por la ignorancia y encadenado por la sed
~ N?g?rjuna
Her voice trembled. "I'm so glad you're mine. I won't ever let you go." This time, it was Kaleb who said, "I know," devastated at being so wanted. "You are just a little possessive.
~ Nalini Singh
Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do.
~ Nalini Singh
No, Nathan, no." She wrapped his face in her hands. "I just need you--all of you--so much that I'm going crazy. I need your laugh. I need your company. I need you to sleep beside me and I need you to wake when I wake. I need you with everything in me.
~ Nalini Singh
A tear streaked down her face. I love you. You're mine. She laughed at the possessive tone. "I've always been yours...
~ Nalini Singh
Love is no rose. It's a goddam weed that digs its roots in deep, there's no hope of getting it out. - Nina Valance, human novelist married to a telekinetic (circa 1977)
~ Nalini Singh
I'm not ready to leave your Seven." Grabbing him by the side of his neck as he had earlier, Raphael hauled him into his arms. "I'm not ready for you to go.
~ Nalini Singh