Possession Quotes

1254 Possession quotes by 873 unique authors

I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically… — Daniel Pennac
At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why… — Nicole Krauss
It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their… — Agatha Christie
We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that… — Paulo Coelho
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. — Marcel Proust
Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"? — Elvis Costello
It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had… — John Irving
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are,… — Jimmy Carter
I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make… — Martin Luther
A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift. ....The Lord has declared that those who serve him and keep his commandments are called… — Marvin J. Ashton
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders,… — Eudora Welty
The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have… — Aldous Huxley
It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the… — Victor Hugo
If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage… — Madeleine L'Engle
The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic… — Paulo Freire
Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that day. That day… — Charles Baxter
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence. — ZoÃ« Heller
The search for truth is more precious than its possession. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his… — John Steinbeck
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. — Frank Lloyd Wright
All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might… — Vladimir Nabokov

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