325 Quotes About Possession

Renee's self-possession, her ability to possess other selves, is a measure of the weakness of her husband, his inability to stop his own self from splitting in half.

Here Carlyle had come, here George Eliot had progressed through the bookshelves. Roland could see her black silk skirts, her velvet trains, sweeping compressed between the Fathers of the Church, and heard her firm foot ring on metal among the German poets.

Pedro of Portugal's rapt and bizarre declaration of love, in 1356, for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife, Inez de Castro, who swayed beside him on his travels, leather-brown and skeletal, crowned with lace and gold circlet, hung about with chains of diamonds and pearls, her bone-fingers fantastically ringed.

Ta cała psychiatria to nic innego, jak tylko swoisty mikrokosmos komunizmu [...]. Lepiej by zostawili ludziom ich kłopoty osobiste. Nasuwa się bowiem pytanie, czy kłopoty nie są jedyną rzeczą na świecie, którą ludzie mogą mieć na własność?

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Praying the prayer is the power of permanent possession.

No one among us possesses the other.

And you say—so kind you are—“I love you. I love you.”—and I believe—but who is she—who is “you”?

Reality is not your external world, it is your internal integration. It is not your material possessions, it is about the people you earned. It is not your fears, it is the intensity of your belief. It is not what you want to be, it is who you become.