Quotes About Possession

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

I'm not opposed to the protection of animals. But the best way to do that is to make sure some human being owns them.

I don't see how that is any of your business." Stupid, shiny Volvo owner.

I'm going to own your body, Lila, because you f*cking own mine.

I don't actually own a car.

The first car I bought was the most beautiful car I've ever seen. It was secondhand, but I parked it outside of my hotel the day I got it. I sat up all night, just lookin' at it.

I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.

I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.

Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances

Helen recognised that she, and Edward, and Dorothy herself, for that matter, were not as others are when it came to possession. She seldom wanted anything. Edward was the same. Her mother had hated spending money, not out of parsimony but laziness. Whatever it was in the make-up of most people that responds to the sight of goods for sale had been left out, in their case.

How can I possess with my body, when I don't even possess my body? How can I possess with my soul, when I don't possess my soul? How can I understand with my mind, when I don't understand my mind? There is no body or truth we possess, nor even any illusion. We are phantoms made of lies, shadows of illusions, and our life is hollow on both the outside and the inside.

He could not bear to part with his paintings because they were an aspect of his being.

2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.

The white man, as one Indian said, "was in the Black Hills just like maggots";10 wasicu, or "the greedy one" (literally, "he-who-takes-the-fat"),11 was the term the Lakota used to describe the miners, and it later became their term for whites in general. "The love of possessions is a disease with them," said Sitting Bull, who was never behindhand in his contempt.

You think a thing has more value simply because it belongs to you. Experts called behavioral economists have noted an issue they call the endowment effect, Dr. Tolin says. Merely owning an item causes you to exaggerate its value, or "endow" it with more worth.

They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.

It was on the order of coin or stamp collecting; no rational explanation could ever be given. And high prices were being paid by wealthy collectors.

she had it—his soul—and she was turning it over and over on her tongue. Goddam her!

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