Quotes About Possession

I'm afraid to lose you and you're not even mine.

Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you.

A man will not let a good woman walk away... but a Boy with pride will lose treasured possession because of his ego.

Cat's don't expect birthday presents, they think they already own everything.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

You're smart, cute, funny, and can always make smile. To me, you're perfect. One problem: You're hers, not mine.

We rule the design of the house. We own the kitchen.

Arsenal have been literally passed to death.

Hecate smelt the odour of death as clearly as she might smell the wonderful, scented fragrance of blooming flowers in springtime or the delicious smell of dinner wafting down the hallway.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

He says "You are my property" and I feel relieved. After all, no one wishes to shatter what he owns.

Art is a way of possessing destiny.

I love 'The Exorcist.'