Possession Quotes

1254 Possession quotes by 873 unique authors

Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of… — William Wordsworth
My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound. — Robert Coover
The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved… — Thomas Paine
I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time — Thucydides
It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the… — James Madison
From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I… — Charles Lamb
I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take… — Peter Carey
The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the… — Carl Jung
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. — Euripides
The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who… — Thucydides
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)â€”Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already… — Walt Whitman
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of… — N. Scott Momaday
History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order… — William Graham Sumner
Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom. — Democritus
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty. — Emile M. Cioran
When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet,… — John Steinbeck
Perception is real, truth is not. I'm not fighting for money and possessions. I'm fighting for something more precious. I pray that as we enter… — Imelda Marcos
Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts. — Khalil Gibran
Possessions are usually diminished by possession. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised. — George Davis Herron
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. — Andre Breton
Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show off their darlings,… — Robertson Davies
We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties. — Anna Brackett
The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances, they should fall… — Joseph Kastein

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