Possessiveness Quotes

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.

Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

Three months before he died, I began to steal things from my father's house. I wandered around barefoot and slipped objects into my pockets. I took blush, toothpaste, two chipped finger bowls in celadon blue, a bottle of nail polish, a pair of worn patent-leather ballet slippers, and four faded white pillowcases the color of old teeth.

When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that.

I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.

I still have such a thing for leather jackets. I have a closet full of them, and my husband is always saying to me, 'Why do you need another jacket? You have plenty of jackets.'

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Cause she hold me down every time I hit her up. When I get right I promise that we gon live it up.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Sell a country? why not sell the air, the clouds ….

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.

No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's.

I would rather die then try to live without you”, “May you always love me and want me but never have me”, “May you never love anyone but me”.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation.

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.