The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.
Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.
I am possessed by love and have no options.
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
Ancient art has a specific inner content. At one time, art possessed the same purpose that books do in our day, namely: to preserve and transmit knowledge. In olden days, people did not write books, they incorporated their knowledge into works of art. We would find a great many ideas in the works of ancient art passed down to us, if only we knew how to read them.
Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.
I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt me.
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.
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.
Molly was arrested. Possession. ” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?
You now have learned enough to see That Cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind. For some are sane and some are mad And some are good and some are bad And some are better, some are worse But all may be described in verse.
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed.
What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?
Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.
He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.
We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.
I think that that's always been a real talent of mine is to be able to spot somebody who has that thing that is so non-definable, that thing that I wish I possessed.