Quotes About Possession

When an Englishman wants something, George Bernard Shaw observed, he never publicly admits to his wanting it; instead, his want is expressed as 'a burning conviction that it is his moral and religious duty to conquer those who possess the thing he wants'. Durant is scathing about this pretence: 'Hypocrisy was added to brutality, while the robbery went on.' And

I knew I couldn't live without you another moment. And I knew I loved you. Well, I knew it when you left the café, and like an idiot, I'd failed more than once to see the other half of my soul right in front of me. Never again. You're mine.

The sensation of being owned rushed through her bloodstream, unlike anything else she'd ever experienced. Between them, wrapped in their passion, she felt small, female, possessed... and shockingly submissive. Just like the night she'd taken them both into her mouth and pleased them, she wanted to give them everything she could, whatever would thrill them. She felt desperate to show them how much she yearned to give to herself.

Then too, and this was as romantic as the others, Briartree was the only thing she had ever really owned. Everything else had more or less been lent her; so it seemed. But this was hers, earned by blood, the only good she ever got from being kin to her mother.

Aimee-If someone's possessed by a demon, how do you get the demon out? Xedrix-Call a priest.

He's ours now. Not made by evil, but birthed by human cruelty. (Mortent Leader)

I know what you are, Talon. You are the man I was born to love. The only man I was born to love." "I'm not a man. Not anymore." "You are mine and I will not let you go without a fight.

You think any of this crap could be possessed? (Zeke) No. I think you're possessed of the spirit of creepiness. (Mary)

Trevor possessed many of the qualities of a vampire without actually being one. He constantly preyed on me, was deeply charismatic, and tried to suck the life out of me.

When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul.

All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed.

People are not things, you cannot have ownership.

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.

Hal shrugged. "It's not our bridge.

Control is made of knowing what we have, and what we want,' said the daemon, and I felt an echo of its satisfaction shiver through me. 'Power is having something that someone else wants and cannot have.

The reason people become sick is the same reason that they become sinful. They surrender to the suggestion of the thing that is evil, and it takes possession of the heart.

The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.

His dad had once told him that hope was the most valuable possession a man could own. When he'd first said it, Nathan hadn't known what he'd meant. Now it was clear. Hope was where tomorrow resided.

Her mother wanted to sell the Hush. The girl wanted its secrets. It was an old argument.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

but since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw form it, it cannot be supposed He meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour was to be his title to it)...