Quotes About Possession

His voice, with some faint Irish melody running through it, wooed the world, yet she felt the layer of hardness in him, of self-control and of self-discipline, her own virtues. Oh, she chose him, and Nicole, lifting her head saw her choose him, heard a little sigh at the fact that he was already possessed.

I've decided to give you up, she said. Dick started - had he said anything to imply that she possessed any part of him?

Pas une seconde il n'avait cessé de regarder Daisy et je pense que les objets qu'il possédait changeait de valeur à ses yeux à mesure qu'ils en prenaient une aux yeux de celle qu'il aimait. Il les contemplait parfois avec stupéfaction, comme si l'incroyable et indiscutable présence de Daisy les rendait brusquement irréels.

Sono lo Sceicco d'Arabia Il tuo amore mi appartiene. Di notte, quando non riesci a dormire, ti adulerò nella tua tenda.

To possess something is to lose it. To feel something without possessing it is to keep it, because in that way one extracts its essence.

Everything belongs to someone else, except the pain of not having it.

I love you the way I love the sunset or the moonlight: I want the moment to remain, but all I want to possess in it is the sensation of possessing it.

El amor requiere posesión, mas no sabe qué es la posesión. Si yo no soy mío, ¿cómo puedo ser tuyo, o tú mía? Si no poseo mi propio ser, ¿cómo podría poseer un ser ajeno? Si ya soy diferente de aquél de quien soy idéntico, ¿cómo seré idéntico de aquél de quien ya soy diferente? El amor es un misticismo que exige practicarse, una imposibilidad que es sólo soñada como debiendo ser posible.

We do not possess our sensations, and through them we cannot possess ourselves.

Since the pleasure we get from art is in a sense not our own, we don't have to pay for it or regret it later. By art I mean everything that delights us without being ours – the trail left by what has passed, a smile given to someone else, a sunset, a poem, the objective universe. To possess is to lose. To feel without possessing is to preserve and keep, for it is to extract from things their essence.

Everything belongs to others except my regret that it doesn't belong to me.

Laguna de la posesión (II) Nada puede penetrarse, ni los átomos ni las almas. Por eso nada posee nada. Desde la verdad hasta un pañuelo —todo es imposeible. La propiedad no es un robo: no es nada.

Tedium … To suffer without suffering, to want without desire, to think without reason … It's like being possessed by a negative demon

No sueño con poseerte. ¿Para qué? Sería traducir a plebeyo mi sueño. Poseer un cuerpo es ser banal. Soñar con poseer un cuerpo es tal vez peor, aunque sea difícil serlo: es soñarse banal, horror supremo.

Poseemos algo? Si ni siquiera sabemos lo que somos, ¿cómo hemos de saber lo que poseemos?

Note that the art of dreaming is not the art of directing our dreams. To direct is to act. The true dreamer surrenders to himself, is possessed by himself.

To possess is to be possessed, and therefore to lose oneself.

For me, possession is an absurd lake — very large, very dark and rather shallow. It only seems deep because it's full of filth and lies.

La verdad es que las cosas que tenemos nos tienen ellas también a nosotros en contrapartida: lo que poseemos nos posee.

Man's desire for God is bedded in his unconscious & seeks to satisfy itself in physical possession of another human. This necessarily is a passing, fading attachment in its sensuous aspects since it is a poor substitute for what the unconscious is after.

When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.

This shiffer-robe belongs to Hazel Motes. Do not steal it or you will be hunted down and killed.

Offensively, I get the ball a lot and I'm able to score in double figures.

Do you know that every unbeliever is filled with a demon spirit?