Possession Quotes

Property, possessions and riches had also finally trapped him. They were no longer a game and a toy. They had become a chain and a burden.

Men can’t own the land no more’n they can own the sea or the sky.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.[Ninguém perde ninguém, porque ninguém possui ninguém. Essa é a verdadeira experiência da liberdade: ter a coisa mais importante do mundo, sem a possuir.]

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

We do not attach ourselves permanently to any possessions, excepting in proportion to the trouble, toil and longing which they have cost us.[Nous ne nous attachons d’une manière durable aux choses que d’après les soins, les travaux ou les désirs qu’elles nous ont coûté.]

Verily, he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty![Wahrlich, wer wenig besitzt, wird um so weniger besessen: gelobt sei die kleine Armuth!]

There is only one way to truly possess a wild animal. To make it your own. To kill it.

There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.

The things you used to own, now they own you.

Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them.