Quotes About Possession

Here is a greedy man who keeps to himself The beautiful pears ripe in his garden.

Don't worry, I don't even have a piece of shit. I have to envy yours.

Health is the greatest possession, Contentment the greatest treasure, Confidence the greatest friend, Non-being the greatest joy.

Unlike the gifts men give each other that are meant to be widely circulated throughout society, gifts between women are meant to be possessed as private treasure forever, accruing vast social powers for the family over succeeding generations

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

Love entails a beyond oneself, the very beyond of the false desire of possession...At the mystery: how one can be non-self with all of one's strength.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the root of all the evil that is in the world

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

The people's good fortune is my misfortune!

I do not step shyly back from your property, but look upon it always as my property, in which I respect nothing. Pray do the like with what you call my property!

Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing

No dia em que devorares o sagrado, ele torna-se tua propriedade!

The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of rational culture and independent of all personal ethical qualities of man. The aristocracy of intellect is hence an unbrotherly aristocracy.

I know this woman." "Who the hell is she?" He stared both his brothers down. "She's mine.

You'll call me Damon. I see no need for dramatic titles. I, on the other hand will call you beautiful, lover, mine. I'll call you mine." (Damon to Serena)

Otvorio sam knjigu nasumice i našao na pri?u o Aleksandru Makedonskom.Car je, pri?a se tu, dobio na poklon divne posude od stakla. Poklon mu se veoma svidio, a ipak je sve polupao. -Zašto? Zar nije lijepo? -Pitali su ga. -Baš zato-odgovorio bi on. -Toliko su lijepe, da bi mi bilo teško da ih izgubim. A vremenom bi se jedna po jedna razbijala, i ja bih žalio više nego sad.

no one could take her away from me alive; I held her pinned to the ground in that beastly grip. The river became silent; the only sound was that of bells within me, unknown and unrung until then, all of my bells, as if they were sounding an alarm. People would gather around; they did not concern me; they did not exist. Oh, my dream, which has become a victim.

Jealousy was essentially "I want what you have," while envy was "I want what you have, but I also want to take it away so you can't have it.

Suddenly,I want to hold the whole night close to my chest and I decide it is mine alone

When you get away with something it's yours only, forever. Heavy and irremediable.

Sometimes, during those same bleak middle-of-the-nights, he held secret fears he never said aloud. Demons had come in the dark, come with the famous Dryden fog that rolled through the town, and taken possession of his lovely, smart, kindhearted wife. And next they'd come for his daughter too.

Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!