Quotes About Possession

When someone put money in your hand you closed your fingers around it and put it in your pocket.

the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors... For from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness.

This is what is meant by possession - to be passionately at war for the qualities in one another to contend for the treasures of each other's personalities. But how can such a war be anything but destructive and hopeless?

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."

It is ridiculous that I have so many shoes I don't wear. I worry that they're sitting there, being sad.

If you love something, let it go. If it does not come back it was not yours to began with.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

You should stay and keep me company, so I don't get lonely.""You don't seem like the type of guy who gets lonely.""Is that a compliment or an insult?"Analia only shrugged.

Cale! Have you had a female in here?"Calic laughed carelessly. "Depends on when you're referring to.

An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to keep.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Las grandes posesiones eran una señal o un indicio de una existencia protegida, bien consolidada, inmune a los futuros caprichos del destino: se les confiaba el cuidado de la vida de sus dueños contra los incontrolables caprichos del destino. Como la seguridad a largo plazo era un valor primordial y un objetivo prioritario, los bienes adquiridos no eran para consumo inmediato.

Si el deseo ansía consumir, el amor ansía poseer. En cuanto la satisfacción del deseo es colindante con la aniquilación de su objeto, el amor crece con sus adquisiciones y se satisface con su durabilidad. Si el deseo es

El amor y el ansia de poder son gemelos siameses: ninguno de los dos podría sobrevivir a la separación. Si el deseo ansía consumir, el amor ansía poseer. En cuanto la satisfacción del deseo es colindante con la aniquilación de su objeto, el amor crece con sus adquisiciones y se satisface con su durabilidad. Si el deseo es autodestructivo, el amor se autoperpetúa.

Should I draw you the picture of my heart it would be what I hope you would still love though it contained nothing new. The early possession you obtained there, and the absolute power you have obtained over it, leaves not the smallest space unoccupied.

I used to get upset if somebody I didn't like loved a book I loved. That's MY book, I'd think.

To those who had lived in Africa for millennia, of course, "there was nothing to discover, we were here all the time," as a future African statesman would put it. But to nineteenth-century Europeans, celebrating an explorer for "discovering" some new corner of Africa was, psychologically, a prelude to feeling that the continent was theirs for the taking.

To those who have been accustomed to the possession, or even to the hope of public admiration, all other pleasures sicken and decay. Of all the discarded statesmen who for their own ease have studied to get the better of ambition, and to despise those honours which they could no longer arrive at, how few have been able to succeed?

him to purchase or command. The exchangeable value of every thing must always be precisely equal to the extent of this power which it conveys to its owner.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches; which, in their eye, is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one's life. There is an urge to say, 'I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.