Possession Quotes

Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.

– Italo Calvino

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

– John Ruskin

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

– John Lennon

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

– Anthony Burgess

The most dazzling aspect of ‘Possession’ is Ms. Byatt’s canny invention of letters, poems and diaries from the 19th century.

– Jay Parini

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

– Bruce Lee

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

– Pliny the Elder

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

– Francis Bacon

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

– Euripides

When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf ’cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.

– Neil Gaiman

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

– Dick Gregory

I have ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

– Nancy Grace

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

– George Meredith

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

– Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

– John Hope

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I’ve never quite understood.

– Ted Kotcheff