Quotes About Possessiveness

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

For, as I always like to say: 'It is not possessing something that is harmful, but being attached to it.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

She was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself

The acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

My love for Daniel had never been entirely honest, and always viciously possessive, and quite entangled with my own hatred of the world at large, and my confusion in the face of the baffling modern times which had begun to open up to me when I emerged in the late years of the Eighteenth Century from the catacombs beneath Paris.

Yet we would never expect law and even extreme social opprobrium to remove from a population jealousy, hatred, greed, sympathy, mirth, possessiveness—the entire palette of human emotions.

They're lucky I didn't rip their arms off for touching her. (Devyn)

fensiveness n. A knee-jerk territorial reaction when a friend displays a casual interest in one of your obsessions.

My love is not water in a bucket, you know. It's not as if someone else can drink it all up and leave none for you.

She had the courage that accepts instantly, without recoil, and the reverence in love that towards man is without possessiveness and towards God without rebellion

In my room, I looked around at all the pieces of my life, neat and tidy on their little shelves, my clothes and books and telephones, my shoes and hair barrettes, and tried to care about them. Mine, mine, mine. But they were only things, things that could have belonged to anyone.

People tend to overvalue what belongs to them relative to the value they would place on the same possession or circumstance if it belonged to someone else.

Does he love you so much? He would commit murder for me.

Perhaps I feel about you as the artist does about the scene over which his soul has brooded with love: he would tremble to see it confided to other hands; he would never believe that it could bear for another all the meaning and the beauty it bears for him.

Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.

Romantic jealousy is a narcissistic defence. It reflects the narcissistic traits and behaviours of possessiveness;

But Honeybun,' I would counter, 'you can't have real love without respect.' 'That is not true in Russia. You either love or you respect. You can not do both.' 'How do you mean?' 'With love you have jealousy, possessiveness, and many other emotions and passions which make respect impossible. We know that in Russia, therefore we accept it.

How often attachment is mistaken for love! Even when the relationship is a good one, love is spoiled by attachment, with its insecurity, possessiveness, and pride; and then when love is gone, all you have left to show for it are the "souvenirs" of love, the scars of attachment.

My woman. She had a momentary image of a caveman, hanging on to his woman by the hair with one hand while in the other he wielded a club to beat back caveman number two. Perhaps she would sketch it one day.

Possessiveness isn't love. I'm not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.

Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.

I've learned that love is not possessive and I've learned that love won't wait. Now I've learned that love needs expression, but I learned too late.

The only person he cared about was the one he thought he could mould her into.