Quotes About Possession

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For the old people in my family (...) the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal. Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. Wins what? is what I'd like to know.

Akhmatova, like Gogol, wanted to possess nothing. She gave away the presents given to her, and a few days later they would be found in other people's houses. This characteristic recalls the behavior of nomads, compelled to the provisional by necessity and by choice...When eastern Europe furnishes such models of detachment, why seek them out in India or elsewhere? (from Anathemas and Admirations)

All men are equal - all men, that is, who possess umbrellas.

Sensuality, as long as it is straightforward did not repel him, but this derived sensuality - the sort that classes a mistress among motor-cars if she is beautiful, and among eye-flies if she isn't - was alien to his own emotions . . . It was, in a new form, the old, old trouble that eats the heart out of every civilization: snobbery, the desire for possessions, creditable appendages; and it is to escape this rather than the lusts of the flesh that the saints retreat into the Himalayas.

Italy was offering her the most priceless of all possessions—her own soul.

To them Howards End was a house; they could not know that to her it had been a spirit, for which she sought a spiritual heir. And—pushing one step farther in these mists—may they not have decided even better than they supposed? Is it credible that the possessions of the spirit can be bequeathed at all? Has the soul offspring? A wych-elm tree, a vine, a wisp of hay with dew on it—can passion for such things be transmitted where there is no bond of blood?

Today, there are three kinds of people: the have's, the have-not's, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have's.

Nowadays people can be divided into three classes - the haves the have-nots and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

The undercurrent of my every thought: To seek you, find you, have you for my own.

But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine.

Standing there, gaping at this monstrous and inhumane spectacle of rock and cloud and sky and space, I feel a ridiculous greed and possessiveness come over me. I want to know it all, posess it all, embrace the entire scene intimately, deeply, totally...

The itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things. Let them and leave them alone--they'll survive for a few more thousand years, more or less, without any glorification from us.

As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Bikes don't leak oil, they mark their territory.

Why is there only one ball for 22 players? If you gave a ball to each of them, they'd stop fighting for it.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

Did you ever notice that when you put the words "The" and "IRS" together, it spells "THEIRS?"

The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Repentance, the refashioning of the heart has begun and the kingdom of God—the gratefully carefree life of children—has come within your grasp at last and you are about to reach out and take possession of it.

I loved the Boy with the utmost love Of which my soul is capable, And he is taken from me – Yet in the agony of my spirit In surrendering such a treasure I feel a thousand times richer Than if I had never possessed it.

To enjoy something fully, you had to own it.

To enjoy something fully, you had to own it. And if you couldn't buy it, then you would have to steal it.