325 Quotes About Possession

He had left her among his belongings as if she was one too.

I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem.

The Holy Mothercradles her son’s lifeless body.Greedy Tarquingrips the terrified Lucretia.Hands on bodieshave no in-between.Loveor possession.

There is no pain in losing what you never had.

Here, in Egypt, the morning of Alexander’s adventure ends. Henceforth he is divided; Alexandria is his first possession and he is no longer free.

It is diligence that is supposed to be your greatest possession

Only when you fuck is everything that you dislike in life and everything by which you are defeated in life purely, if momentarily, revenged. Only then are you most cleanly alive and most cleanly yourself. It’s not the sex that’s the corruption – it’s the rest. Sex isn’t just friction and shallow fun. Sex is also the revenge on death. Don’t forget death. Don’t ever forget it. Yes, sex too is limited in its power. I know very well how limited. But tell me, what power is greater?

I reason everything out, and usually analyze my tastes too well to succumb to them blindly. And that's my chief defect, the real cause of my weakness. But this woman has taken possession of me in spite of myself, in spite of my fear and my knowledge of her; and she possesses me as if she had plucked out, one after the other, my every last aspiration.

Death is another inevitable consequence of possessing something without its understanding