325 Quotes About Possession

It is odd, when I think of it, that in chess the female may make the large runs and cross freely in all ways—in life it is much otherwise.

Obsession over possession only brings destruction.

No woman before her had written publicly, with greater candor or less euphemism, about the most intimate secrets of her sex. One of those secrets- the hardest, perhaps, for Beauvoir to avow- is that a free woman may refuse to be owned without wanting to renounce, or being able to transcend, her yearning to be possessed

Money and looks are okay to an extent to lure women, but it’s the luck that enables one to lay them. Why, you can’t screw even a whore if you’re not destined to have her, your visit to the brothel would have coincided with her periods, and the next time you’re eager, she could have shifted out of the town itself.

Bodily possession is ... a rare event. More frequent ... is Satan's ownership of the soul by its being in a state of mortal sin!

lThis is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Ce qui nous préoccupe, ce n'est pas ce que nous possédons, c'est ce qui nous manque.

What you possess determines the greatness of what you profess

To own something means that it is so small in stature and importance that it can be possessed. And I don’t know if there’s anything in life that’s really that small.