#Possession Quotes

“One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.”

“We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.”

“I will be master of what is mine own:She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,My household stuff, my field, my barn,My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.”

“Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.”

“There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.”

“Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.”

“I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.”

“There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.”

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

“Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.”

“Those who own much have much to fear.”

“A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.”

“By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.”

“To model an object is to possess it.”

“To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.”

“Love and exclusive possession can never go together.”

“...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.”

“If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.”

“That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.”

“To have little is to possess.”

“One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.'”

“The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.”

“Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.”

“What a man does not understand, he does not possess.”

“When you feel Jealousy is a sign that Love should have each other”

“Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.”

“Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.”

“Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.”

“I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”

“You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”

“Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.”

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

“Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.”

“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.”

“The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.”

“Mine is better than ours.”

“That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth.[Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]”

“No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.”