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“I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself.
You hide to protect yourself.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

“The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing.”
― Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

“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, In Between the Sheets

“Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“The guest was now the master of Wuthering Heights: he held firm possession, and proved to the attorney, who, in his turn, proved it to Mr. Linton, that Earnshaw had mortaged every yard of land he owned for cash to supply his mania for gaming; and he, Heathcliff, was the mortgagee.

In that manner, Hareton, who should now be the first gentleman in the neighbourhood, was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father's inveterate enemy; and lives in his own house as a servant deprived of the advantage of wages, and quite unable to right himself, because of his friendlessness, and his ignorance that he has been wronged.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.”
― F.H. Bradley

“Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“His forty-third year. His small time's end. His time-
Who saw Infinity through the countless cracks
In the blank skin of things, and died of it.”
― A S Byatt

“I had cooperated. I could not have refused. I was smitten with her, half in love but also afraid, because in my life (and she seemed to know this) I had not loved anyone without having been wounded. Love was power and possession, love caused pain: you were never more exposed than when you were in love, never more wounded; possession was an enslavement, something stifling.”
― Paul Theroux, A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta

“There can never be any real freedom on earth as long as people try to exert ownership over the natural resources of the world.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“Here Carlyle had come, here George Eliot had progressed through the bookshelves. Roland could see her black silk skirts, her velvet trains, sweeping compressed between the Fathers of the Church, and heard her firm foot ring on metal among the German poets.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

“Settling other people's land is an American tradition.”
― Ariel Gore, Atlas of the Human Heart

“In order to exert influence over people, there were other things that could be used besides love. Knowledge seemed to be an equally strong force, perhaps even stronger. Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.”
― Peter Prange, The Philosopher's Kiss

“Renee's self-possession, her ability to possess other selves, is a measure of the weakness of her husband, his inability to stop his own self from splitting in half.”
― Greil Marcus, The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice

“Pedro of Portugal's rapt and bizarre declaration of love, in 1356, for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife, Inez de Castro, who swayed beside him on his travels, leather-brown and skeletal, crowned with lace and gold circlet, hung about with chains of diamonds and pearls, her bone-fingers fantastically ringed.”
― A. S. Byatt

“Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.”
― Peter Prange, The Philosopher's Kiss

“What a pretty cage it is, she thought. And what a seductive jailer.”
― Nenia Campbell, Sine Qua Non

“Ta cała psychiatria to nic innego, jak tylko swoisty mikrokosmos komunizmu [...]. Lepiej by zostawili ludziom ich kłopoty osobiste. Nasuwa się bowiem pytanie, czy kłopoty nie są jedyną rzeczą na świecie, którą ludzie mogą mieć na własność?”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

“Don’t look at Daddy like that.�� He caught her chin, thumbing her kiss-swollen lips. “It’s just going to make what’s going to happen that much harder for you.”
― Nenia Campbell, Sine Qua Non

“One man carries salvation and damnation from the desert.”
― Matthew Sawyer, Pazuzu - Manifestation

“Nothing is quite so attractive in our possession as it was when coveted”
― Pliny the Younger

“In the past few days I've begun to feel my body growing more distant from my soul. It's as though my head and arms, my breasts and torso and legs are all floating somewhere just out of reach, and I can only watch as he plays with them. And that, too, is because I have lost my voice. When the voice that links the body to the soul vanishes, there's no way to put into words one's feelings or will. I am reduced to pieces in no time at all.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“So many things that never should have belonged to him had become his.”
― Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide

“... indicating that when wealth increased, so did danger, and people bore arms”
― Artikum Museum Rovaniemi

“Depression possesses the soul, just the way alcohol possesses the body.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“I never wanted it with anyone else. That’s why I kept your old bed. I couldn’t get rid of the first place I ever had you.”
― Nenia Campbell, Sine Qua Non

“One who kills demons will soon become possessed by one.”
― Masahiko Takajo, Riki-Oh, Vol. 5

“Terror Of Other People probably thought that with her dead, it, itself, could carry on living. It would party it up, let its hair down, continue to be fearful. Never do they realise, these psychological usurpers and possessors, that in dispensing with the host - with the one being above all whom they need for their own survival - inevitably they are also dispensing with themselves.”
― Anna Burns, Milkman

“...the Sibyl,
Resisting possession, storms through the cavern,
In the throes of her struggle with Phoebus
Apollo. But the more she froths at the mouth
And contorts, the more he controls her, commands her
And makes her his creature. Then of their own accord
Those hundred vast tunnel-mouths gape and give vent
To the prophetess's responses...”
― Seamus Heaney, Aeneid Book VI

“Your most valuable Possession will always be your Soul �� nobody can steal it, nobody can borrow it, nobody can damage it without your Permission.”
― Sino Melo