Quotes About Possessiveness

Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.

With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's partner.

I don't want any one else to touch you. I'm silly. I get furious if they touch you.

Those who lack gratitude's vision do not possess things; things possess them. And that is misery.

fidelity and loyalty, desire and longing, jealousy and possessiveness, truth-telling and forgiveness. I encourage you to question yourself, to speak the unspoken, and to be unafraid to challenge sexual and emotional correctness.

I have containers and containers of clothes that I've hoarded in my attic, and I probably should give them away to give good use, but I am selfishly wanting to hold on it because I'm like, 'What if I need that?'

Girls like that idea, that little bit of possessiveness. They t'ink it means he only wants her, when o' course, it's the other way round. He only wants her available to him. He's still free to look at other girls...

I observe that humans are far too possessive about their ideas, as if ideas would have no existence if they didn't think them. Well,, let me tell you, as a dog I know for sure that I am visited by ideas all the time, and I have never once thought one into existence. Humans don't understand ideas. They think their brain makes them.

Todos tendemos a exagerar el valor de lo que por casualidad nos pertenece.

He hadn't quite drifted off, although he looked exhausted. Under heavy eyelids, he surveyed her, a faint smile of masculine triumph teasing his lips. The possessiveness in his gaze and in his embrace made her feel wanted, needed…loved. She'd

Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth-bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation.

To hold a man a woman has to appeal to the worst in him. This sentence was the thesis of most of his bad nights, of which he felt this was to be one. His mind had already started to play variations on the subject. Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush - these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth - bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation.

But I think I cannot own a thing and love it at the same time. Owning diminishes the innate sovereignty of a thing, enriching the possessor and reducing the possessed. -- Barbara Kingsolver writes, 'It's going to take the most selfless kind of love to do right by what we cherish and give it the protection to flourish outside our possessive embrace'.

Otro hombre toca lo que es mío y lo mato. Lo destrozaría, Ria. Cualquiera que se atreva a intentar hacerte daño, y la locura será la menor de mis debilidades. Me destruirá. Eres mía-Mercury

she had known better. She should have sent Alex after him. She should have sent anyone after him but herself. Because she had known how it would end, and she had known where he would want it to go. Rather than accepting that, she had fooled herself into thinking that taking her, realizing her innocence, her feelings for him, that he would show a spark of possessiveness. Just a moment's hesitancy in sharing her with other men, with seeing another man touching her, taking her.

All I have are fragmented dreams that drive me fucking crazy. Whatever we started eight years ago, we'll finish this summer. One way or the other." Nothing on earth could convince him to let her out of his sight now. Possessiveness, desire, and emotions he hadn't felt in so many years he barely remembered them rose to the surface of his consciousness.

Possessiveness smothers. [Liz Searley, 'The Stone Boy']

You must control your anger and jealousy and possessive nature or, as you become more powerful and your will increases in strength, you will injure others.

Love like this was all consuming. I found that I was jealous of the strangest things - sunlight, streets, curtains, even her clothing, anything that was close to her.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

Oh, diese Eifersucht ist noch viel unbegreiflicher als unsre Liebe, denn wir können doch nicht alle Weiber und Mädchen zu unserm Eigentum machen; aber das lüsterne Auge läßt sich keine Schranken setzen, unsre Phantasie ist wie das Faß der Danaiden, unser Sehnen umfängt und umarmt jeglichen Busen.«

The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what.

Remember that envy is one of mankind's greatest flaws. It leads to recklessness in the one who envies and possessiveness in the one who has you by his side.

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.