70 Quotes About Possessiveness

Rahul had wondered how someone could love their beloved so much that their dedication to them became one of the wonders of the world.

I would fight of course. Oh, I would fight. Better destroy everything than surrender her.

Observing people taking in the work I had watched Robert create was an emotional experience. It had left our private world. It was what I had always wanted for him, but I felt a slight pang of possessiveness sharing it with others. Overriding that feeling was the joy of seeing Robert's face, suffused with confirmation, as he glimpsed the future he had so resolutely sought and had worked so hard to achieve.

Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.

It is very protective of me. But certain sorts of protection, even care, can shade into a sort of desire for ownership. Certainly into a feeling that what is being protected is an earned exclusivity of access for the protector, not the privacy of the protected.

He broke away from my mouth and trailed his lips down the front of my throat. I felt his lips close around my scars. He kissed away their ugliness. His lips parted in tingling butterfly kisses that drained the strength from my knees. I realized he was mouthing words against my skin. Not words. Just one word.Mine.

My house, my wife, my child-as if anything belongs to us.

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.