Posessions Quotes

“Then one woman looked directly at her husband. "Is our place gone?" "I'm afraid so, girl," he said. "There isn't much left up there. But we're alive. We're all lucky to be alive. We'd have been dead if we'd stayed up above." "Oh, what a mercy we didn't!" she exclaimed. "How lucky we are!" Incredible though it sounds, within a few moments, a whole lot of people were congratulating each other on their extraordinary good fortune in only having lost all their worldy posessions.”

“The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”

“What we possess owns us, and we absolutely own nothing.”

“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”

“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”