Quotes About Possess

Beyond doubt, my love for her was one of the purest, most romantic things in my life. Friendship for her? If she were healthy, strong? No — her way of taking life would be impossible for me. Entirely impossible. We would have talked to each other as though shouting from different rooms. And yet I feel regrets. If I could cancel it all out, and never possess her soul?

This is an obsessive configuration insofar as the obsessive's desire is always for something impossible: to attain an unattainable status (e.g., perfection, omniscience, or immortality), to complete an uncompletable project, or to possess what he cannot possess. In saying that the obsessive is characterized by an impossible desire, Lacan goes so far as to add that his desire is for impossibility itself.

To teach men that they possess the ability to turn from sin when they choose to do so is to hide the true extent of their need.

The science of loving, yes, that's the only kind of science I want I'd barter away everything I possess to win it.

The weight of the weapon would defy the current – that was the important thing, the way it would refuse to be carried along. Some things could do that. Some things possessed the necessary weight to acquire a will of their own.

You can feel like he wants to own you, -not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having.

abandoning the city to the predations of warriors on both sides who seemed content to flatten it in order to possess it.

Thoughts are natural events that you do not possess, and whose meaning you only imperfectly recognize.

Woe is all I possess. Wagner, Die Walküre

In the end, the problem of Europe is the same problem that haunted its greatest moment, the Enlightenment. It is the Faustian spirit, the desire to possess everything even at the cost of their souls.

Los matemáticos manejan grandes cantidades, pero nunca suyas…

You have striven so hard, and so long, to compel life. Can't you now slowly change, and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.

The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

His chief failing is a lack of curiosity." "I'd have said no imagination." "All beings possess imagination to varying degrees," Thrawn said. "It can be encouraged and nurtured, or can sometimes shine out in moments of stress. But curiosity is a choice. Some wish to have it. Others don't.

Dreams. Each man longs to pursue his dream. Each man is tortured by this dream, but the dream gives meaning to his life. Even if the dream ruins his life, man cannot allow himself to leave it behind. In this world, is man ever able to possess anything more solid, than a dream?

Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?

Sai had wondered, Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?

This means not giving credence to those who say they are in possession of the truth. For this reason, science and religion frequently find themselves on a collision course. Not because science pretends to know ultimate answers, but precisely for the opposite reason: because the scientific spirit distrusts whoever claims to be the one having ultimate answers or privileged access to Truth.

There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

A belief is the most contagious influence you possess. If you believe in circumstances, they can and will defeat you. If you believe in yourself, you are assured victory.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.