Top 100 Love Possession Quotes
#1. The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love. Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.
Josef Pieper
#2. Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.
Frederick Lenz
#3. Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.
Leo Buscaglia
#4. Life is a precious possession ... It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan
Mary Balogh
#5. Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave.
Suzanne Curchod
#6. Music is my first love and the thing that I feel extremely connected to. I feel like I still have a long way to go within that in terms of being able to perform and write songs. But, yeah, I really hope 'The Possession' opens doors for me to do more acting, because I really enjoyed it.
Matisyahu
#7. If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms
Jenny Han
#8. It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them
Walter Hilton
#9. A truce to philosophy! - Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own.
Mary Shelley
#10. I needed to channel the darkness that ran through my veins and embrace it. To play this game better than this man ever could have predicted. After all, I'd only been with him twice, and already I could see his weakness.
His weakness was me.
A. Zavarelli
#11. Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.
Henry Ward Beecher
#12. Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.
Robert Muller
#13. So it is that the life force may take possession of a man
so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.
Wendell Berry
#14. Happiness means being close to the one you love, that's all. (Taking immediate possession is not necessary.)
Orhan Pamuk
#15. I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.
A.S. Byatt
#16. Jesus says in effect, 'Do you want to know what it feels like to be God? When one of those two-legged humans pays attention to me, it feels like I just reclaimed my most valuable possession, which I had given up for lost.' To God himself, it feels like the discovery of a lifetime.
Philip Yancey
#17. Know what's worse than cold turkey? Just a little bump. One tiny sip to take the edge off. The edges never went away, they only got sharper. Every addict would tell you. Gray areas couldn't exist in a sober environment.
A. Zavarelli
#18. He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [ ... ] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.
Leo Tolstoy
#19. A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#20. The present is our own; but while we speak,
We cease from its possession, and resign
The stage we tread on, to another race,
As vain, and gay, and mortal as ourselves.
Thomas Love Peacock
#21. He tightens one arm around my waist and cups the back of my neck with the other. We stare at each other, his eyes dark and intense before his lips come down on mine in a kiss of fierce, tender possession.
And just like that, I fall wildly in love with my husband all over again.
Nina Lane
#22. He tastes like mint and posession and fire.
A. Zavarelli
#23. It was madness, it was possession, it was desire. Most of all, though, it was love.
Kate Morton
#24. What is the world, except that which we feel? Love, and hope, and delight, or sorrow and tears; these are our lives, our realities, to which we give the names of power, possession, misfortune, and death.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#25. To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.
Mary Webb
#26. David, I'll fly for you, if you'll love me!"
"Fly, then."
"I can't fly, but love me anyway."
"Poor wingless child!"
"Is it so hard to love me?"
"Do you think you are easy, my illusive possession?
Zelda Fitzgerald
#27. The wish to gain complete possession of somebody is expressed most plainly by jealousy. Jealousy is never a sign of love. It only indicates fear of not being able to hold another person.
Rudolf Dreikurs
#28. Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. When possession of wealth or splendors brings happiness- it is an illusion, when attainment of certain mental state brings happiness- it is a real possession.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
Jack London
#33. To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.
Denis De Rougemont
#34. I sometimes cannot understand how she can love another, how she dares love another, when I love nothing in this world so completely, so devotedly, as I love her, when I know only her, and have no other possession.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#35. My heart clenched at the show of protectiveness, of possession. What would it feel like to have someone love you like that? To have them know all your worst secrets and want you anyway? "We're
Skye Warren
#36. Marin believes love is better in the chase than caught.
Jessie Burton
#37. The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.
Rabindranath Tagore
#38. For it falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
While it was ours.
William Shakespeare
#39. Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.
Pierre Charron
#40. Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
Herodotus
#41. I'd single-handedly go to war and burn their whole organization to the ground before I ever let them harm what was mine. And there were no two ways about it- Brighton would always be mine.
A. Zavarelli
#42. You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.
Iyanla Vanzant
#43. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer - because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement, not the possession of a brainless slut.
Ayn Rand
#44. Love is not a possession to hoard. You give it away. It's a blessing and a balm.
Winston Graham
#45. That's because we were never apart. Since we were kids, we were one. It has always been that way. We found a way back to each other, my love."
Luka's eyes bored into mine, a flare of possession in their glare. "And will always be that way," he said assertively. "I'm never losing you again.
Tillie Cole
#46. Prayer is not merely coming to God to ask something from him. It is above all fellowship with God and being brought under the power of his holiness and love, till he takes possession of us and stamps our entire nature with the lowliness of Christ, which is the secret of all true worship.
Andrew Murray
#47. Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Love is about giving freedom and power, not about gaining control or possession.
Jeffrey Fry
#49. A child comes from God, a child
is a gift from God, but a child is
not our possession.
Give the child unconditional love
and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul. The child has its own way.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#50. She was the only antidote for the bleakness that lived inside of me. My goddess. My deity. I wasn't a believer in any religion, but I'd make an exception in this case. I'd get down on my knees and worship at her alter every day if it brought her back to me.
A. Zavarelli
#51. Like life, love is a constant adventure and a constant process. It is not a possession.
Debasish Mridha
#52. I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you. You should not love me. One ought not to love the moon. If you come too near me, I will hurt you.
Anais Nin
#53. Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.
Khalil Gibran
#54. We are summoned not only to intimacy but to take possession of our very oneness with the Son of God in the inner life of the Trinity in the communication of the very Love of Father and Son, the Most Holy Spirit. This is what centering prayer is about.
M. Basil Pennington
#55. My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event.
Joyelle McSweeney
#56. She made the beast rear its ugly head. Stirred fantasies in my mind I would have never otherwise entertained. Owning her wasn't enough. Controlling her didn't douse the inferno blazing inside me.
A. Zavarelli
#57. When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.
F.H. Bradley
#58. True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.
Suze Orman
#59. Nobody has ever looked at me the way he's looking at me at this moment. Like I'm his possession. Like if anyone else were to touch me, he'd break both their legs and an arm for good measure.
A. Zavarelli
#60. Was it cruel if someone asked for it? Begged for it, even? She always begged. Even now, I could hear her whimpering for me. Christ, those noises she made. A one-way ticket to heaven.
A. Zavarelli
#61. Your opinions about me does not change who I am. I am God's special possession.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#62. Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life.
David O. McKay
#63. True love can exist only in freedom from possession.
Shekhar Kapur
#64. Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought ... life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.
Clarice Lispector
#65. For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection.
Thucydides
#66. Did the harebell loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as formerly?
Emily Dickinson
#67. The greatest possession we have costs nothing; it's known as love ...
Brian Jett
#69. No human relation gives one possession in another - every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
Kahlil Gibran
#70. Imagine Him smiling down on you right now. Embrace His love. Remember, you are His most prized possession, the apple of His eye!
Victoria Osteen
#71. A tattoo is art and not a possession as love is beauty and intangible. A tattoo is a promise, not an accessory.
Danielle Valenilla
#72. I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them
with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.
Eudora Welty
#73. Wealth does not always depends on possession, but often depends on perception.
Debasish Mridha
#74. For love, as she knew it now, was something without shame and without reserve, the possession of two people who had no barrier between them, and no pride; whatever happened to him would happen to her too, all feeling, all movement, all sensation of body and of mind.
Daphne Du Maurier
#75. Possession of wealth is not the happiness but expression of gratitude for the possession is the happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#76. Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.
Marquis De Lafayette
#77. Love is not possession. Love is letting your loved ones follow their own paths, even if those paths lead them away from you.
Cloris Kylie
#78. The greatest things to have can't be possessed, they exist within yet can be shared, like freedom, love, trust, integrity, fun, dreams, creativity, wisdom, peace.
Jay Woodman
#79. It was Brighton. She made me fucking insane. Her beauty and absolute perfection dissolved any moral boundaries that may have existed within me.
A. Zavarelli
#80. Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
Victor Hugo
#82. I swear to you, Nora Grey, on this day, from now and forever, to give myself to you. I am yours. My love, my body, my soul - I place in your possession and protection. He held out the ring, a single offering, a binding promise.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#83. Love and exclusive possession can never go together.
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.
Plato
#85. For the possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself.
Marcel Proust
#86. Time and love are the most valuable possessions you can share.
Suze Orman
#87. Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#88. Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.
Benjamin Franklin
#89. This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected
in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Thomas Mann
#90. I'm not letting you go, baby girl. You need to accept that.
A. Zavarelli
#91. Love isn't actually a feeling at all
it's an illness, a certain condition of body and soul ... Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will
just like cholera or a fever.
Ivan Turgenev
#92. But soon I loved her completely and wished to possess her, own her, absorb her, eat her. I wanted her in my arms and in my bed, I longed she would open her legs to me
Ian McEwan
#93. If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#94. It wasn't desire, it was biology. My body was adapting to the situation. Doing what it needed to survive. That, I was certain of. Because if I had liked it, liked the hands of this monster, that would have made me a monster too.
A. Zavarelli
#95. He was my favourite possession, and I didn't feel right if I couldn't get hold of him. He was warm, hard to do without, and I wanted to drag him around with me everywhere I went. The most comfortable blanket in the world, right next to my skin, that was Bogey.
Rika Yokomori
#97. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.
Benjamin Franklin
#98. He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.
W. Somerset Maugham
#100. If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho
