Quotes About Possession

It was a motorcycle. Black, angular, and sleek, unmistakably European, it was the most beautiful object Carter had ever seen. He wanted it. He would fight anyone who tried to take it away from him. How soon could he ride it?

The absense of a soul, by the way, makes it easy to inhabit a body. (Therefore, why is Elton John still pudging around unpossessed? I hear you ask?)

Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.

What you inherit from your father must first be earned before it's yours.

L'héritage qui t'est venu de ton ancêtre, Il te faut l'acquérir pour le mieux posséder. Conserver sans besoin, c'est se donner un maître Et rien, hors du présent, ne peut nous profiter.

Esos pocos árboles que no son míos me impiden la plena posesión del mundo.

All you truly "own" is your SELF. Everything else is borrowed in the illusion of time and space. Treasure yourself.

Stuffocation: being overwhelmed by the stuff one has bought or accumulated.

The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.

But history supplies little beyond a list of those who have accomodated themselves with the property of others.

Nor did ever a miser prize his treasure as did I prize the knife.

La posesión de un dios trae consigo el servicio.

I admit to a specialized occupation, which in fact has not so much as acquired a name. Not to put too keen an edge on it, I wait under gallows until the corpse drops, whereupon I assume possession of the clothes and valuables. I find little competition in the field; the work is dull, and I will never become wealthy, but at least it is honest, and I have time to daydream.

Her always is mine

It's true,' she agreed. 'You are the only one of us who belongs to this country.' 'No, this country belongs to me. I will be its sole owner and everything here will be mine.

It's obvious you're just a bad loser," said Chloe. "I want my notebook!

He takes what he wants and then gives us back what is already ours.

wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought.

The unselfish man, even though he finds himself involved in riches, stands aloof, in his mind, from the idea of "exclusive possession", and so escapes the bitterness and fear and anxiety which ever accompany the covetous spirit. He does not regard any of his outward accretions as being too valuable to lose, but he regards the virtue of unselfishness as being too valuable to the world - to suffering humanity - to lose or cast away.

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

Without the right to defend yourself--and the right to possesss the means to do it--all other supposed rights are so much hot air.

To each one, the encounter with Jesus is unique, however it occurs. That no one possesses Jesus, or fully understands him, is why the movement toward Jesus can never be made alone.

Looking back, I know that the man possessed no gift of prophecy; he simply worked to assure his own future, while I skated uncertainly toward mine. It was his flat-voiced Cherchez la femme that still haunts me. Because our partnership was nothing but a bungling road to the Dahlia. And in the end, she was to own the two of us completely.

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine.