The Possessed Quotes

To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

So there was not an "I" anymore - not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect - save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.

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.

The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks.

Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!

Really, Alexia, what could have possessed you to attach yourself to the side of the ship in such a juvenile fashion? It is positively barnacle-like.

The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.

The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.

I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.

The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.

That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.

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.

That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch.

I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.

I thought there was a good chance the fridge was possessed. It was subtle about it, but I had its number. I knew its ways. Oh yes.

Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.

Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.

All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.

I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.

a man possessed with peace is always smiling

No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.

A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.

I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.

Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.

All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed.

if you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

You both should feel honored.” “Right, very honored,” I said. “Always wanted to be possessed!

I feel as though that was someone else playing. I was possessed!

The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence.

Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.

Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.

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.