No one worth possessing can quite be possessed

I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will…

— Bill Johnson

“When you feel terribly angry, you're possessed by anger ghost.”

— Toba Beta

One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal…

— Fernando Bujones

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

— George Sand

There is an indefinable quality possessed by some artists. You simply can't explain it.

— Vera-Ellen

The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know…

— Karl Radek

In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by…

— Matthew Henry

I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes perceived, a…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of…

— John Adams

“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't…

— Graham Greene

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

— George Meredith

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let…

— John Lennon

“The way my imagination was running I’d be thinking I was possessed by everyone in hell.”

— Karina Halle

“We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.”

— William Boyd

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

— Susan Sontag