Quotes About Possession

The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]

What did we go to war for, if not to protect our property?

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.

His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.

If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.

The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

I'll kill for you, give up everything i own for you...but i won't give you up.

Countess Judith kept her husband's head in a box. At night it perched on the pillow by her side, at meals it sat on the board by her plate, and her household feared it almost as much as they feared her. She talked to it, they whispered among themselves, and who was to say it didn't answer.

Webster was much possessed by deathAnd saw the skull beneath the skin.

He who dies with the most toys wins.

The truth is the most desirable woman in the world and we are the most jealous lovers, reflexively denying anyone else the slightest glimpse of her.

Zoe wasn't his partner, she was his trophy, and the thing about trophies is that they got old fast and, soon enough, you needed another conquest and another trophy on the shelf.

Zoe to move along. In the bathroom, she snatched a bottle of 600 ml. Ibuprofen—given to her at the hospital. She didn't need it, but it had her name on it, and while nearly everything she owned would inevitably be left behind, the bottle was her prescription with her name on it. It had to go. She dumped

Like any collectable of any real value, it's priceless to the right owner" -Mr. Simmons

Todo nuestro disfrute está enturbiado por la ansiedad por conservar lo que poseemos y por nuestra necesidad compulsiva de ampliarlo.

Se redressant, elle se sentit possédée par quelque chose d'insolite. De tréfonds d'elle-même,comme d'une source profonde,elle poussa un cri, un unique cri, le seul qui put jaillir.

Lady Middleton, who owned a chair purported to have been in the queen's bedroom at Versailles, caused a scene when she sent it to her bank and insisted that it be stored in the vault.

Every object that brings us pleasure can also bring us suffering and anxiety. The more we value an object, the more we worry that it will be broken or taken from us. That is the nature of our mind and of our relationship with objects.

there should be a word for this, the way it feels to steal something that's already yours.

didn't have to tell him that I understood, because he knew that I did. There should be a word for this, the way it feels to steal something that's already yours.