Quotes About Possession

The blood is life... and it shall be mine!

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

It takes some living to discover that the living itself is one's life, that life is not a goal to attain but a possession to relish.

Property in everyday life, is the right of control.

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Oh, it's not important. It's just a glove!" Manzhen spoke lightly, but in fact she was upset. Sometimes she focused so hard on little things she was almost small-minded. But Shijun, when he looked back at it all, treasured this trait of hers. Manzhen was the kind of person who, once something came into her possession, cherished it till it became, in her eyes, the best thing ever. He knew, because he'd once been hers.

Alive, her body belonged to him; dead, she was his ghost.

Ye belong to me," he said, whispering the words against her mouth, "only ye refuse to admit it, even to yerself. But ye will. One day, Ye will. - Alysandir Mackinnon

The relationship between money and the possession of things had disappointed her.

Carracci's possessions, she, too, was Carracci's possession.

Everyone wants to look for something of their own, a house of their own, a child of their own, a partner of their own, entirely for themselves alone. No one is satisfied with a room of their own any more.

The abandonment of civilized values exposes us collectively to possession by the worst elements of the Shadow.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite

Its immoral to steal, but you can take things.

But what does he want my heart for?" the little queen asked. "He just wants to own it," replied the sea lion. "That is enough. He wants to look on its beauty and know that his hands alone can touch it.

Some things become so completely our own that we forget them.

Many things, In order to assure me their lack of existence; become mine

Many things, In order to assure me their lack of existence; became mine

Sometimes, something of someone is liked too much not because it holds too much value or has a true value, but because there are too many bidders and buyers to have the same thing at the resale value.

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.