„… but that’s what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.“

— Erich Maria Remarque
„What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.“
— Cesare Pavese
„For it falls outThat what we have we prize not to the worthWhiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,Why, then we rack the value, then we findThe virtue that possession would not show usWhile it was ours.“
— William Shakespeare
„Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,Possessed by what we now no more possessed.“
— Robert Frost