Possessed Quotes

530 Possessed quotes by 418 unique authors

The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm outside Ajay's newsagent's.… — Jenny Downham
Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. — Hannah Arendt
One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared. — Dante Alighieri
If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in… — Dean Koontz
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those… — Albert Camus
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of… — Lord Byron
Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it. — Richard Siken
Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge… — Confucius
My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?... — Brent Weeks
It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their… — Dean Koontz
it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative… — John Keats
Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past. — Willa Cather
He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything,… — Charles Baudelaire
I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed. — John Fante
Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this… — William Peter Blatty
I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see… — Che Guevara
Of all that I have possessed in my life, my memories are the only things remaining to me. Indeed, I believe that memories are the… — Gary Jennings
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess. — Rajneesh
For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet… — George Eliot
The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants - packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective or… — Zadie Smith
He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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