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Quotes About Possessiveness

The scene taking place illustrates an immemorial error of men: having appropriated the role of seducers, they never even consider any women but the ones they might desire; the idea doesn't occur to them that a woman who is ugly or old, or who simply stands outside their own erotic imaginings, might want to possess them.
~ Milan Kundera
Love one another, but let's try not to possess one another.
~ Paulo Coelho
By 'Love' people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him.
~ Rajneesh
Love's a dog in a manger.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True love is a love without possessiveness. You love and still you are free, and the other person is also free. The kind of love that has no joy is not true love. If both parties cry every day, then that's not true love. There must be joy and freedom and understanding in love.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
He stared at her a long moment, his eyes narrowed. "Lass," he said softly, "if you tried to leave me, I fear I wouldn't let you. I fear I would do whatever I had to do, no matter how ruthless, to keep you." "I consider myself warned," she said pertly. "Trust me, I'm not going anywhere. Now tell me.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
~ Kate Millett
Richard had a theory about intimate human relations. He saw nonpossessive love as pure love, the only love, and possessive love as a mockery of pure love. Nonpossessive love did not enslave or constrain the love object.
~ Huey P. Newton
All some folks want is their fair share and yours.
~ Arnold H. Glasow
Don't be sorry. Just try not to let him touch you. When he touches you I see red. I can't take it. I don't want to see him or anyone else touch you
~ Abbi Glines
you calls it Possesiveness, i calls it Fear Of Loosing You.
~ Ehsaan Nashad
I won't lie. I want to beat the hell out of any man who's had you—you'd be smart to keep them the hell away from me—but nothing in your past can change how I feel about you.
~ Sylvia Day, Reflected in You
More than jealousy or possessiveness pettiness kills love.
~ Marty Rubin
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
HeDestiny is very jealous FOR TRUE LOVE
~ Arshdeep Singh Samrala
Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns.
~ Naomi Klein
The heart, with all its potential, loses its balance too easily when it loves a creature. It throws itself upon the creature loved and wants to possess it; and possessiveness kills. It holds on to the creature so passionately that it loses sight of the creator. Moreover it ruins the object of its love by its obsession with it. It ruins it, makes it a slave.
~ Carlo Carretto
Maybe it's wrong to deprive people of that experience, this experience of you I'm having. Maybe I didn't want to share you.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Seto Kaiba [to Ishizu]: Are you sure you can trust me, Ishizu...? What if I retrieve the three rare cards...but refuse to let them go...?
~ Kazuki Takahashi
A jealous husband is an ugly thing.
~ Keith Ablow
Or possibly possessiveness was a characteristic of draconic affection. They were supposed to be hoarders, after all. Not so different from Librarians.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Monogamy," he stated flatly. "While you're with me, I'm the only one. Anybody else touches you and I'll kill them." "What if I accidently bump into someone?" Gold flashed in his eyes. "Don't.
~ Ilona Andrews