Quotes About Possession

We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.

For the possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself.

She tried to persuade them to confine their tributes to flowers and sweets, which had at least the merit of mortality; but she was never successful, and the house was gradually filled with a collection of foot-warmers, cushions, clocks, screens, barometers and vases, a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.

O ciúme nada mais é muitas vezes do que uma inquieta necessidade de tirania aplicada às coisas do amor.

We fear more than the loss of anything else the disappearance of possessions that have remained outside ourselves, because our hearts have not taken possession of them.

Pois a posse do que se ama é uma alegria ainda maior do que o amor.

Jealousy is often only an anxious need to be tyrannical applied to matters of love.

Attachment to an object always brings death to the possessor.

Ambition is more intoxicating than fame; desire makes all things blossom, possession wilts them; it is better to dream your life than to live it, even if living it means dreaming it, though both less mysteriously and less vividly, in a murky and sluggish dream, like the straggling dream in the feeble awareness of ruminant creatures.

4. When a man fighteth against his sin only with arguments from the issue or the punishment due unto it, this is a sign that sin hath taken great possession of the will, and that in the heart there is a superfluity of naughtiness.

The quality of owning freezes you forever in I, and cuts you off forever from the we.

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.

My great complaint is that the only possession I carry about with me is a bag of losses. I am the owner solely of the memory of things I used to have. Perhaps it is well--for I seem to love them more now that I have them not.

For how can a man without property know the ache of ownership?

A crop raised--why, that makes ownership. Land hoed and the carrots eaten--a man might fight for land he's taken food from. Get him off quick! He'll think he owns it. He might even die fighting for the little plot among the Jimson weed.

Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im.

Oh, I have the money. I've had it a long time.

Then, with time, the squatters were no longer squatters, but owners;

For Mr. Edwards, as cold-blooded a whoremaster as ever lived, had fallen hopelessly, miserably in love with Catherine Amesbury. He rented a sweet little brick house for her and then gave it to her.

Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.