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Possessiveness Quotes

Jane Austen quote: "possession"
possession Jane Austen
Robert Frost quote: "Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by..."
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed. Robert Frost
George Meredith quote: "Possession without obligation to the object possessed..."
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. George Meredith
Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to him with a broomstick. I see the hate in his heart and the people he has yet to kill before pneumonia gets him at eighty-three. I see the dead kid’s mom unable to sleep, pounding her fists against her face in grief at the moment I was burying her son’s hand. I see the pain I’ve caused. I see the man I could have been, and the man I was, and then... George Saunders
Aphra Behn quote: "Possessed with a thousand thoughts of past joys"
Possessed with a thousand thoughts of past joys Aphra Behn
Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder--which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would submissively obey the most peremptory orders about stance and expression. Terry Prachett
Yukio Mishima quote: "Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership..."
Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth. Yukio Mishima
Lao Tzu quote: "Possessing rare treasures brings about harmful behavior."
Possessing rare treasures brings about harmful behavior. Lao Tzu
Louisa May Alcott quote: "possessed of that indescribable charm called grace."
possessed of that indescribable charm called grace. Louisa May Alcott
Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach. James Wolfe
John Lennon quote: "Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of..."
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem. John Lennon
Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past. Susan Sontag
No one worth possessing. Can be quite possessed; Lay that on your heart, My young angry dear; This truth, this hard and precious stone, Lay it on your hot cheek, Let it hide your tear. Hold it like a crystal. When you are alone. And gaze in the depths of the icy stone. Long, look long and you will be blessed: No one worth possessing. Can be quite possessed. Sara Teasdale
IV? The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels. V? If the many become the same as the few, when possess'd, More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than All cannot satisfy Man. VI? If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot. VII? The desire of Man being Infinite the possession is Infinite & himself Infinite. William Blake
The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. Graham Greene

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