Possessiveness Quotes
36 quotes by 25 authors
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I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually…
— Julie Burchill
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They were so much alike and they become best friends. It was a wonderful relationship. They respected each other, and they never put each other…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.
— Rajneesh
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In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which…
— John Updike
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There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.
— William Devane
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Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.
— Erich Fromm
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Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I…
— Sylvia Kristel
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Marriage has failed because you could not rise to the standard that you were expecting of marriage, of the concept of marriage. You were brutal,…
— Rajneesh
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But people find it very difficult to be a loving person, so they create a relationship - and befool that way that 'Now I am…
— Rajneesh
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When you are in relationship with people, in a thousand and one ways you are provoked, challenged, seduced. Again and again you come to know…
— Rajneesh
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So what you are doing, be aware, observe it, and then go on meditating. Soon you will begin to feel the change. Now there is…
— Rajneesh
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You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
— A. R. Rahman
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Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.
— Rajneesh
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A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing…
— Rajneesh
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When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.
— Paul Budnitz
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With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's…
— Peter Shepherd
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I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.
— Olga Kurylenko
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Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work.…
— Helen Fisher
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If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to…
— John O'Donohue
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For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of…
— Francoise Sagan
Who Wrote These Possessiveness Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 36 Possessiveness Quotes as follows: