Definition of Clinging

Clinging Quotations

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
Alan Watts

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
Clarence Darrow

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
P. J. O'Rourke

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Michel de Montaigne

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.
Matt Damon

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
Bela Lugosi

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.
Morris West

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Charles Morgan

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.
Jeanne Calment