Possession Quotes

Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEINGHAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even peopleBEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people

Obsession and possession are just sessions destined to end soon.

When we have not what we love we must love what we have.

Roger de Rabutin

Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly he said "That man does hot possess his estate but his estate possesses him."

Diogenes

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

William Drummond

Wouldst thou both eat they cake and have it?

George Edward Herbert

Unto every one that hath shall be given and he shall have abundance but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

Matthew

Possession they say is eleven points of the law.

Our life on earth is and ought to be material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.

Anonymous

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

Persian Proverb

A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I feel when people say 'bigger and better' they should say 'bigger and badder'.

Marie Elizabeth Kane

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You got a harem of seventy girls you don't get to know any of them very well.

It is preoccupation with possession more than anything else that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell

Ownership is to fear (tener es temer)

Spanish Proverb

Broad acres are a patent of nobility and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface it is 4000 miles deep and that is a very handsome property.

Charles Dudley Warner

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Collis P. Huntington

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The want of a thing is perplexing enough but the possession of it is intolerable.

When we have not what we love we must love what we have.

Roger de Rabutin

Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly he said "That man does hot possess his estate but his estate possesses him."

Diogenes

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

William Drummond

Wouldst thou both eat they cake and have it?

George Edward Herbert

Unto every one that hath shall be given and he shall have abundance but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

Matthew

Possession they say is eleven points of the law.

Our life on earth is and ought to be material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.

Anonymous

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

Persian Proverb

A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I feel when people say 'bigger and better' they should say 'bigger and badder'.

Marie Elizabeth Kane

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You got a harem of seventy girls you don't get to know any of them very well.

It is preoccupation with possession more than anything else that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell

Ownership is to fear (tener es temer)

Spanish Proverb

Broad acres are a patent of nobility and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface it is 4000 miles deep and that is a very handsome property.

Charles Dudley Warner

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Collis P. Huntington

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The want of a thing is perplexing enough but the possession of it is intolerable.

Astarte has come again, more powerful than before. She possesses me. She lies in wait for me.December 97My cruelty has also returned: the cruelty which frightens me. It lies dormant for months, for years, and then all at once awakens, bursts forth and - once the crisis is over - leaves me in mortal terror of myself.Just now in the avenue of the Bois, I whipped my dog till he bled, and for nothing - for not coming immediately when I called! The poor animal was there before me, his spine arched, cowering close to the ground, with his great, almost human, eyes fixed on me... and his lamentable howling! It was as though he were waiting for the butcher! But it was as if a kind of drunkenness had possessed me. The more I struck out the more I wanted to strike; every shudder of that quivering flesh filled me with some incomprehensible ardour. A circle of onlookers formed around me, and I only stopped myself for the sake of my self-respect.Afterwards, I was ashamed.I am always ashamed of myself nowadays. The pulse of life has always filled me with a peculiar rage to destroy. When I think of two beings in love, I experience an agonising sensation; by virtue of some bizarre backlash, there is something which smothers and oppresses me, and I suffocate, to the point of anguish.Whenever I wake up in the middle of the night to the muted hubbub of bumps and voices which suddenly become perceptible in the dormant city - all the cries of sexual excitement and sensuality which are the nocturnal respiration of cities - I feel weak. They rise up around me, submerging me in a sluggish flux of embraces and a tide of spasms. A crushing weight presses down on my chest; a cold sweat breaks out on my brow and my heart is heavy - so heavy that I have to get up, run bare-foot and breathless, to my window, and open both shutters, trying desperately to breathe. What an atrocious sensation it is! It is as if two arms of steel bear down upon my shoulders and a kind of hunger hollows out my stomach, tearing apart my whole being! A hunger to exterminate love.Oh, those nights! The long hours I have spent at my window, bent over the immobile trees of the square and the paving-stones of the deserted street, on watch in the silence of the city, starting at the least noise! The nights I have passed, my heart hammering in anguish, wretchedly and impatiently waiting for my torment to consent to leave me, and for my desire to fold up the heavy wings which beat inside the walls of my being like the wings of some great fluttering bird!Oh, my cruel and interminable nights of impotent rebellion against the rutting of Paris abed: those nights when I would have liked to embrace all the bodies, to suck in all the breaths and sup all the mouths... those nights which would find me, in the morning, prostrate on the carpet, scratching it still with inert and ineffectual fingers... fingers which never know anything but emptiness, whose nails are still taut with the passion of murder twenty-four hours after the crises... nails which I will one day end up plunging into the satined flesh of a neck, and...It is quite clear, you see, that I am possessed by a demon... a demon which doctors would treat with some bromide or with all-healing sal ammoniac! As if medicines could ever be imagined to be effective against such evil!

Non-possession” does not mean having nothing. It does not mean to live as a penniless beggar. Rather than meaning having nothing, it is the idea of not possessing what we do not need. The more we possess, The more we have attachments.

Always be challenged to build your life intentionally for possessions.

Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

Penelope Lively

Nobody has ever looked at me the way he’s looking at me at this moment. Like I’m his possession. Like if anyone else were to touch me, he’d break both their legs and an arm for good measure.

Until the House of Jacob (believers) live in fullness of their heavenly father in his presence, they will never possess their possession.The meat seller will keep begging for bone to eat. And the creature will keep waiting for manifestation of the sons of God.

Peter Isekiigbe DE Rock

Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

Buffy Summers: (to Spike) "I could NEVER be your girl!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer writers

Do I believe in demonic possession?My thinking is more aligned with 'demonization' in the context of Christianity & Spirit-filled believers, whereas I am quite certain an 'unbeliever' can possibly become 'possessed' by a demonic spirit('s).

Tom Farrell had always wished Hell on his boss. On New Years Eve... Hell sent someone.-Along For The Ride-

Oh no." I said panic rising in my chest. "No, no, no, Somebody get a can opener. I've got a god in my head!!

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