Possession Quotes

1254 Possession quotes by 873 unique authors

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny. — Aristotle
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. — Henri Rousseau
Ours is not a joy born of having many possessions, but of having encountered a person: Jesus in our midst. — Pope Francis
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with… — William Ernest Henley
When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession. — Confucius
No possession is gratifying without a companion. — Seneca the Younger
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that… — Joseph Wood Krutch
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object… — Matthew Simpson
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. — George Meredith
The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything. — Holbrook Jackson
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied. — Susan Sontag
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in… — Andrea Dworkin
Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly. — Russell Lynes
Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But when we believe that giving is… — John C. Maxwell
Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal. — Geoffrey Chaucer
To keep demands as much skill as to win. — Geoffrey Chaucer
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world. — Gabriela Mistral
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time. — Louis Sullivan
The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that… — Yo-Yo Ma
Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working.… — Edward Ruscha
Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to… — Simone Weil
Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession. — Frederick Lenz
Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love,… — Frederick Lenz

Who Wrote These Possession Quotes

873 authors contributed a total of 1,254 Possession Quotes, led by these top contributors: