Quotes About Possession

I am not so naive that I have not heard of adultery. And while I am very forbearing in a lot of things, should I ever get wind that you are sharing my 'that' with anyone else, I shall surely cut it off and mount it on the mantel.

You must have something in order to give it up.

La maison est à moi, c'est à vous d'' sortir

Le gusta este jardín, que es suyo? ¡Evite que sus hijos lo destruyan!

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

That which a man takes for himself no one can deny him.

That the world of today presents all the symptoms of demonic possession.

I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you. You should not love me. One ought not to love the moon. If you come too near me, I will hurt you.

I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.

We must avoid possession, he said. But, oh, let me kiss you.

When we walked together through the streets, bodies close together, arm in arm, hands locked, I could not talk. We were walking over the world, over reality, into ecstasy. When she smelled my handkerchief, she inhaled me. When I clothed her beauty, I possessed her.

Paul, Paul, this is the claim you never made, the fervor you never showed. You were so cool and light, so elusive, and I never felt you encircling me and claiming possession. Rango is saying all the words I wanted to hear you say. You never came close to me, even while taking me. You took me as men take foreign women in distant countries whose language they cannot speak. You took me in silence and strangeness.

She had forced the hourglass of pain to turn. They had pursued each other. They had tried to possess each other. They had been slaves of a pattern, and not of love.

He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot possess without loving.

The money I inherited never belonged to me.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

I have a horror of rest; possessions encourage one to indulge in it, and there's nothing like security for making one fall asleep; I like life well enough to live it awake, and so, in the very midst of my riches, I maintain the sensation of a state of precariousness, by which means I aggravate, or at any rate intensify, my life. I will not say I like danger, but I like life to be hazardous, and I want it to demand at every moment the whole of my courage, my happiness, my health...

Que ton désir soit de l'amour, et que ta possession soit amoureuse.

Car, je te le dis en vérité, Nathanaël, chaque désir m'a plus enrichi que la possession toujours fausse de l'objet même de mon désir.

One imagines one possesses and in reality one is possessed.

We imagine we possess, and we are possessed.