Possessiveness means Having or manifesting a desire to control or dominate another, especially in order to limit that person’s relationships with others

1. Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have tr
Erich Fromm

2. I found myself hating him, wanting to hurt him, to drive him away from the red-haired girl who was supposed to be mine. Breathless, I slumped to the wall, numb with the realization. This anger, these illogical feelings of rage and possessiveness…I was jealous. I was jealous of a girl I was supposed to be stalking, seducing, for the sole purpose of revealing her true nature. This had become more than an objective, more than a mission.
I was falling for her.
Julie Kagawa, Talon

3. In the beginning, everything is mixed — as if mud is mixed in gold. Then one has to put the gold into fire: all that is not gold is burned, drops out of it. Only pure gold comes out of the fire. Awareness is the fire; love is the gold; jealousy, possessiveness, hatred, anger, lust, are the impurities
Osho

4. With you, intimacy colours my voice.even 'hello' sounds like 'come here.
Warson Shire

5. Love should have possessiveness then only love become strong….
Akshatha

6. Lee, you’re gonna have to get over this jealous-possessiveness thing.””Indy, you’re gonna have to get used to the fact that I’m the jealous-possessive type.
Kristen Ashley

7. You have to be possessive about who you love.
Sushant Singh Rajput

8. You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you’ve tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.
Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes

9. Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you’d planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.”
Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

10. So what you are doing, be aware, observe it, and then go on meditating. Soon you will begin to feel the change. Now there is no possessiveness in relationship. By and by, possessiveness disappears. And when possessiveness is not there, relationship has a beauty of its own. When possessiveness is there, everything becomes dirty, ugly, inhuman.
Rajneesh

11. Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your possessiveness, it burns your jealousy – it burns all that is wrong and negative, and it enhances all that is beautiful, graceful, divine.
Rajneesh

12. True love, sir, is possessive and cannot bear to share with all the world.
Moliere

13. Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment – all are synonyms for accumulating merit.
Pema Chodron

14. Boys and girls should be taught respect for each others liberty, and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love. Bertrand Russell

15. Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It’s just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.
Frederick Lenz

16. Back then I didn’t think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn’t the life for me!
Sylvia Kristel

17. That's my possessive alpha male. Most girls would probably hate that, but not me. Nope, I love it.
Payton Clare

18. Your sweetheart calls you by another’s name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy – that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation – can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival. Helen Fisher

19. Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not bring the amelioration they had hoped for and it is incredibly innocent and moving to think of them discussing it with Vanessa. They wanted to know when she had first had an orgasm. She said she couldn’t remember but she knew she had been “sympathetic” from the age of two. Vita Sackville-West said about Virginia, “She dislikes the possessiveness and love of domination in men. In fact she dislikes the quality of masculinity.
Elizabeth Hardwick

20. I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling.
Gary Busey

21. You're not the only one who can get possessive. I'm very proprietary about what's mine.
Sylvia Day

22. If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.”
John O’Donohue

23. This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience – it looks for a way of being constructive. Love is not possessive. Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas. Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage. Love is not touchy. Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails. Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen.
Elisabeth Elliot

24. Possessiveness isn't love. I'm not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.
Ann Aguirre

25. It is an irony that the more possessive you are, the more love you demand, the less you receive, while the more freedom you give, the less you demand, the more love you will receive.
Harold H Bloomfield

26. Although Being Possessive And Protective Can Be Cute, But Don't Go Overboard with
Anonymous

27. You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
A. R. Rahman

28. I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances. Julie Burchill

29. The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
Van Wyck Brook

30. Love is a non-possessive delight in the particularity of the other.
James E. Loder

31. There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.
William Devane

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32. Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment – all are synonyms for accumulating merit.
Pema Chodron

33. Yet,’said Maturin, pursuing his own thought, ‘there is a quality in dogs, I must confess, rarely to be seen elsewhere and that is affection: I do not mean the violent possessive protective love for their owner but rather that mild, steady attachment to their friends that we see quite often in the best sort of dog. And when you consider the rarity of plain disinterested affection among our own kind, once we are adult, alas – when you consider how immensely it enhances daily life and how it enriches a man’s past and future, so that he can look backward and forward with complacency – why, it is a pleasure to find it in brute creation.
Patrick O’Brian

34. Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.
Rajneesh

35. If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. A.A. Milne

36. Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.
Rajneesh

37. Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.
Erich Fromm

38. When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.
Paul Budnitz

39. For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.”
Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse

40. Jealousy is a sign of possessiveness. A sign that you're afraid that someone might steal your special someone away from you
Anonymous

41. Deuce take it, he was in over his head.But it didn't matter. He'd ruined her, and marriage was the only way to fix that.'Oliver?' she whispered…
Sabrina Jeffries

42. Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper1 To me it means nothing.
Olga Kurylenko

43. When you are in relationship with people, in a thousand and one ways you are provoked, challenged, seduced. Again and again you come to know your pitfalls, your limitations, your anger, your lust, your possessiveness, your jealousy, your … But this is the only way to know who you are. –
Rajneesh

44. The purpose of a relationship is to complement each other, grow together, and achieve your common goals as a couple. At the same time, you must each maintain your individual identity as a human being.
Anonymous

45. In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse- quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up.
John Updike

46. If Possessiveness Is the Outcome of True Love Then Anger Is The Outcome of True Care. But Very Few Realize It
Anonymous

47. Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.
Bruce Jay Friedman

48. Love is not possessiveness; many people think that's what love is you possess somebody totally. To possess somebody is to destroy all possibility of love.
Osho

49. The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
Van Wyck Brooks

50. I go out of my way to make sure you don’t have any reason to feel jealous, but when you do get possessive, I like it. I want you to fight for me. I want you to care that much. I want you crazy about me. But possessiveness without trust is hell. If you don’t trust me, we’ve got nothing.
Sylvia Day

51. Don't ever let your possessiveness..insecurities..and jealousy dominates you..for it could be the reason to lose the person whom you love the most
Anonymous

52. You don't own the person, stop being Possessive
Anonymous

53. Height of Possessiveness: A girl dying of cancer. Friend asks: why do u keep telling people ur dying of AIDS?
Girl: So dat wen I die, no one will dare touch my boyfrnd
Anonymous

54. Never be possessive about anything or anyone… You are born alone and you will die alone… Everything else will leave you sooner or later… Nothing stays with anyone forever except your soul and your beliefs.
Anonymous

55. Thoughts of possessiveness come when there is fear of losing the loved one! It's not because they don't believe you, it's because they don't believe you, it’s because they don’t have on others who might take advantage of your sweetness.
Anonymous

56. Possessiveness is the outcome of true love. Anger is the outcome of true care. So accept both from your loved ones.
Simingr

57. A great deal of struggle and sorrow in the world comes from misguided feelings of pride of ownership and possessiveness.
Bryant H. McGill

58. With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's partner.
Peter Shepherd

59. I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.
Olga Kurylenko

60. Possessiveness comes when there is fear of losing the loved one not because they don’t trust you it’s because they don’t trust others who may take advantages of your sweetness
Anonymous

61. Possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.
Sylvia Townsend Warner

62. Possessiveness is the outcome of true love. Anger is the outcome of true care but very few understand it
Anonymous

63. Do not become possessive. The purpose of a relationship is to complement each other, grow together, and achieve your common goals as a couple. At the same time,
Anonymous