Possession Quotes

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...

Overheard on a Saltmarsh"Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?Green glass, goblin. Why do you stare at ...

But soon I loved her completely and wished to possess her, own her, absorb her, eat her. I wanted he...

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I co...

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

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough but the possession of it is intolerable.

Possession they say is eleven points of the law.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Among all the methods by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate th...

Among all the modes by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that...

I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach hims...

I had cooperated. I could not have refused. I was smitten with her, half in love but also afraid, be...

I think I possess because I do not try to give,Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and tha...

You are rich. You own. We are poor. We lack. You have. We do not have. Everything is beautiful here,...

IV   The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon beco...

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal j...

He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months ...

Think of this- that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each...

They did go on so, don't you think, those Victorian poets, they took themselves so horribly seriousl...

I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

I have no other possessions of value but my soul.

A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

It is preoccupation with possession more than anything else that prevents men from living freely a...

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use ne...

Broad acres are a patent of nobility and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a b...

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and ear...

Our life on earth is and ought to be material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage ou...

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but...

Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEINGHAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things eve...

When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the re...

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three...