Achieve Quote by Emily Dickinson

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.

— Frank Sinatra

“The desire to possess is marked by an unceasingly growing, voracious element that manifests itself in the simple desire to have more, but also…

— Dorothee Soelle

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.

— Eliza Haywood

Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.

— Edward Young

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

— Sydney J. Harris

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

— Samuel Johnson

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

— Edgar Lee Masters

“To possess something is to lose it. To feel something without possessing it is to keep it, because in that way one extracts its…

— Fernando Pessoa

Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

— Robert Frost

In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in…

— Henry David Thoreau

Nothing on this planet is permanent, and this is why I believe there can be no such thing as possession.

— Sebastien Foucan

“To be possessed of no more than momentary existence, and to have even that momentary existence filled up with more evil than good; to…

— Augustus Toplady