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Quotes About Attachment

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
~ Andre Gide
M?lest?ba ir ieraduma lieta.
~ Javier Marías
Se la echaría en falta, por costumbre más que por aflicción
~ Javier Marías
Las clases las llevamos clavadas en el alma y les pertenecemos para siempre sin darnos cuenta. No es un asunto político; es algo más hondo.
~ Javier Reverte
Quien muere vive para siempre [...]. Quien se aferra a esta vida, muere eternamente.
~ Javier Sierra
Guys don't get romantically involved." "What do they get?" "Involved, period.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
What is this mania to love someone all one's life ? Why should we?
~ Jean Anouilh
Deixou de existir a nossa terra. Quem ama, ama o mundo ou não ama nada.
~ Jean Giono
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
~ Jean Iris Murdoch
When we live in memory we cut ourselves off from the universe, we live in isolation. This is the root of all suffering.
~ Jean Klein
She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.
~ Jean M. Auel
We all have a collection of memories that we would happily lose, but somehow those are just the ones that insist upon sticking.
~ Jean Webster
You know that I've always had a very special feeling towards you; you
~ Jean Webster
When you get accustomed to people or places or ways of living, and then have them snatched away, it does leave an awfully empty, gnawing sort of sensation.
~ Jean Webster
but you won't mind, will you, if I tell you that I have a very much more special feeling for another man? You can probably guess without much trouble who he is. I suspect that my letters have been very full of Master Jervie for a very long time. I
~ Jean Webster
Seseorang tidak akan merindukan apa yang tidak dia miliki, tapi sungguh sulit rasanya hidup tanpa benda-benda tertentu setelah dia terbiasa memilikinya.
~ Jean Webster
I have been thinking about you a great deal this summer; having somebody take an interest in me after all these years makes me feel as though I had found a sort of family. It seems as though I belonged to somebody now, and it's a very comfortable sensation.
~ Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs
Ce qui avait pris fin, au fond, c'était la redoutable contradiction dans laquelle elle s'était enfermée : n'aimer que pour être aimée, s'offrir mais pour acquérir celui qui vous reçoit, enchaîner l'autre dans le sacrifice qu'on prétend faire pour lui.
~ Jean-Christophe Rufin
A body is not unlike a pet -- stupid and dirty as it is, one becomes attached to it.
~ Jean-Christophe Valtat
Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Why is the measure of love loss?
~ Jeanette Winterson
She's my kitten, and no one else's.
~ Jeaniene Frost
she would staple him to her, sew him into her skin, affix her body permanently to his now, if she could. She'd grow her hair into his scalp, would become his conjoined twin-mother. She would forgo a private thought in her head for the rest of her life, if she could keep him safe.
~ Jeanine Cummins
No tienes nada, no puedes tener ni retener nada, y he aquí lo que necesitas amar y saber. He aquí lo que corresponde a un saber de amor. Ama lo que se te escapa, ama a aquel que se va. Ama que se vaya
~ Jean-Luc Nancy