Quotes About Possession

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.

Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of the day.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

You can chase love. If you are lucky enough to catch it…is it really yours?

Everything that you can touch with pure love belongs to you.

Happiness is a perception—not a possession.

nO thing is yOur's except yOur "bOdy" -&- nO one is yOurs except yOur "sOul

Things do not belong to us but we belong to things.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.