Quotes about obsession

Ricardo Derose -

Mature men look into the ladies hearts.Immature ones mention constantly their body parts.They mentioned sex like they’re obsessed.Enslaved by drugs and alcohol helpless.

Donna Lynn Hope -

Obsession when thoughts are held captive and no longer your own.

Steve Maraboli -

Love and hate are not opposites they are siblings birthed by obsession.

Jeanette Winterson - The Passion

Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.

Sylvia Plath - The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

I must get my soul back from you I am killing my flesh without it.

Sōseki Natsume - And Then

Daisuke was the sort of man who, once he was disturbed by something, no matter what, could not let go of it until he had pursued it to the utmost. Moreover, having the capacity to assess the folly of any given obsession, he was forced to be doubly conscious of it. Three of four years ago he had tackled the question of the process whereby his waking mind entered the realm of dreams. At night, when he had gotten under the covers and begun to doze off nicely, he would immediately think, this is it,

C.K. Kelly Martin - I Know It's Over

You spend months barely acknowledging someone's existence and then BOOM, you're emotionally addicted to her. Science would probably blame it on chemicals, genetics or something equally logical, but it didn't feel like anything logical

Julia Quinn - What Happens in London

She’d ceased spying upon him, that was true, but the damage was done. Every time he sat at his desk, he could feel her eyes upon him, even though he knew very well she’d shut her curtains tight. But clearly, reality had very little to do with the matter, because all he had to do, it seemed, was glance at her window, and he lost an entire hour’s work.It happened thus: He looked at the window, because it was there, and he couldn’t very well never happen to glance upon it unless he also shut his cu

Nenia Campbell - Crowned by Fire

You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can't be both.

Ahmed Mostafa -

May your love never become an obsession.

Sunday Adelaja -

Do not allow yourself to be obsessed on failures

Shannon L. Alder -

When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?

Sigmund Freud - New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forerunner of our modern technology. We suppose that this confidence in magic is derived from the over-estimation of the individual’s own intellectual operations, from the belief in the ‘omnipotence of thoughts’, which, incidentally, we come across again in our obsessional neurotics.

Thaddeus of Vitovnica - Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely necessary to reveal everything [in Confession] to a priest who is a witness to our repentance.Repentance is the renewal of life. This means we must free ourselves from all our negative traits and turn toward absolute good. No sin is unforgivable except the sin of unrepentance.

Jeanette Winterson -

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.

Juliet Marillier - Daughter of the Forest

You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bold; that clutches hold of you by the heart, as irrevocably as death; that becomes the lodestar by which you steer the rest of your life.

Pablo Neruda - 100 Love Sonnets

I touched you and my life stopped

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.I was a strong lad and survived; but the poison was in the wound, and the wound remained ever open

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school.She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

D.H. Lawrence - Women in love

Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his own soul.

Maggie Stiefvater - The Raven King

His quest was a wolf, and it starved. - Gansey

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Werther

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.

Margaret Atwood - Morning in the Burned House

This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards,

Italo Calvino - Difficult Loves

You only have to start saying of something : 'Ah, how beautiful ! We must photograph it !' and you are already close to the view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it never existed, and therefore in order to really live you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life.

Jeanette Winterson - The Passion

Passion out of passion's obstacles.

Pushpa Rana - Just the Way I Feel

I invented you the way I like but I have fallen for you the way you are.

Pushpa Rana - Just the Way I Feel

Writing is my passion, expression and an incessant obsession.

Michelle M. Pillow - Portrait of His Obsession

He knew for certain that she belonged forever in his arms, just as he knew she didn’t realize it yet.

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

Our thoughts shape us. We become our obsessions. Our thoughts can enslave us or save us.

Marty Rubin -

All the great novels are about obsession and people who are obsessed.

Gary Shteyngart - Little Failure

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

Roberto Hogue - Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed

If you love sex, let it be known. You don’t have to walk around downtown naked or have some flyers printed up, but definitely don’t be shy about your love (or obsession) for sex.

Nikki Sex - Amy's Gangbang Love Story

It was an obsession, it was a compulsion. "The way to banish temptation is to give into it," the saying went. Maybe if she experienced a gangbang, it wouldn't be such a big deal, and would no longer be the focus of her sexual imagination.

Karen Marie Moning - Shadowfever

As he fills me, I wonder if—in the same way that sex makes its own unique perfume—we don’t really “make” love. As in create, manufacture, evoke an independent element in the air around us, and if enough of us did it really well, for real, not just for the hell of it, we could change the world. Because when he’s in me, I feel the space around us changing, charging, and it seems to set off some kind of feedback loop, where the more he touches me, the more I need him to. Having sex with Barrons sat

Donna Leon - Quietly in Their Sleep

..if you put people on a diet, they start thinking about food. Or if you make someone stop smoking, all they think about is cigarettes. It seems logical enough to me that if you tell a person he can't have sex, he's going to be obsessive about the subject. Then to give him the power to tell other people how to run their sex lives, well, that's just asking for trouble. In a way, it's like having a blind person teach Art History, isn't it?

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

One-night stands were invented to free men from worrying about the size of their penis. And to free women from worrying about the size of their stretch marks.

Goldy Moldavsky - Kill the Boy Band

Maybe it was obsession, but it was also happiness; an escape from the suckiness of everyday life. And when you find something that makes you happy and giddy and excited every day, us fangirls know a truth that everyone else seems to have forgotten: you hold on to that joy tenaciously, for as long as you can.

Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch

But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end-and yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it's possible to play it with a kind of joy?To try to make some meaning out of all this seems unbelievably quaint. Maybe I only see a pattern because I've been staring too long. But then again, to paraphrase Boris, maybe I see a pattern because it's there.

Jack Gantos - The Love Curse Of The Rumbaughs

Eventually, her designed genetic material will be implanted into my egg, which first would have had my genetic material removed. Then my mother could become my baby. And someday, when I get old, I can become her baby. Then she will be mine, and I will be hers.

Franki Fiori - Down to the Bone

I long for the day I no longer long for him.

Jonathan Lethem - The Disappointment Artist

By trying to export myself into a place that didn't fully exist I asked works of art to bear my expectation that they could be better than life, that they could redeem life. In fact, I believe they are, and do. My life is dedicated to that belief. But still, I asked too much of them: I asked them also to be both safer than life and fuller, a better family. That they couldn't give. At the depths I'd plumb them, so many perfectly sufficient works of art would become thin, anemic. I sucked the juic

Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch

I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother's death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her back. All that blind, infantile hunger to save and be saved, to repeat the past and make it different, had somehow attached itself, ravenously, to her. There was an instability in it, a sickness. I was seeing things that weren't there. I was only one step away from some trailer park loner stalking a girl he'd spotted

Stefan Zweig - The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These moments were his platonic nights of love. Books had power over him; money never did. Great collectors, including the founder of a collection in Princeton University Library, tried in vain to recruit him as an adviser and buyer for their libraries—Jakob Mendel declined; no one could imagine him anywhere but in the Café Gluck. Thirty-three years ago, when his beard was still soft and black and he ha

Umberto Eco - The Island of the Day Before

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.

Jennifer Salaiz -

To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need to have a character you're completely and utterly obsessed with. Without obsession, to the point of a maddening addiction,there's no point to continue.

Niyi Osundare -

One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing intoa habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession.Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic,physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.

Debasish Mridha -

Don’t let your problems become your obsession.

Criss Jami - Healology

There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

Charles Bukowski - Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

I wait on my fix:I am a poetry junkie.

Rainer Maria Rilke -

Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.And without feet I can make my way to you,without a mouth I can swear your name.Break off my arms, I'll take hold of youwith my heart as with a hand.Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat.And if you consume my brain with fire,I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.

Debasish Mridha -

Love is not an obsession or a delusion. Love exists in longing and appreciation.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

I am obsessed with reading and writing.

Stijn Moreels -

It's all about Perfection or the tolerance of Imperfection

Steven Magee -

Mankind's obsession with money and greed has them going down a one way street to their demise.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of the obsession of owning them.

Scott Adlerberg - Graveyard Love

Don't come, I was thinking now. Wherever you are, stay there. Because with her reduced to a fantasy, I could imagine a wonderful meeting. I could see her smiling, tossing her red-haired head, staring at me with inquisitive eyes. I'd say something meaningful to her, and she'd melt for me. Reality could not live up to that.

Pushpa Rana - Just the Way I Feel

Sanity is to the mind, insanity is for the heart,Docility is to the mind, wildness is to the heart,Tamable is the mind, Untamable is the heart,Freedom is to the mind, cages are for the heart.

F.D. Lee - The Fairy's Tale

She was here and the world, for so long ugly and deformed, was all at once itself again. She was taking a glass of sweet wine from one of the waiters. She was smiling. She was breathing. She was here. She was an island of such colossal importance within a sea of inconsequence that it seemed impossible the Ball was able to continue its empty existence.

Kate Nash -

I don't ever dream about you and meI don't ever make up stuff about usThat would be considered insanityI don't ever drive by your houseTo see if you're inI don't even have an opinionOn that tramp that you are still seeingI don't know your timetableI don't know your face off by heartBut I must admit that there's still a part of meThat thinks we might get on

Dermot Davis - Fatal Eclipse

It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread.

Marty Rubin -

Obsession is the evil genie who turns pleasure into pain.

Moe Cidaly -

It takes a lot of effort for an obsessive mind to accept the fact that everything is in order except itself.

Anne Lamott - Blue Shoe

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

Munia Khan -

Mind hates to seep in delusion soaking faintly discolored obsession.

Stephen King - Lisey's Story

The exhausted mind is obsession's easiest prey.

Don DeLillo - Ratner's Star

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way out once he was in, no genuine rest, no one to talk to who was capable of understanding the complexity (simplicity) of the problem or the approaches to a tentative solution. There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or "terror in a lonely place," the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind. As a mathematic

Liv Morris - Marry Screw Kill

1. “Someday there will be a woman-one who takes your breath away. You won’t be afraid of commitment, you’ll be afraid of living without her. That’s when you’ll know. She'll be your reason to exist. You’ll want to move heaven and earth to make her happy and see her smiling face. God help you then. He’s the only one who can.

E. Lockhart - The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

Marcel Proust - Swann's Way

When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, “What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one’s future happiness lies in the answer.

Harrish Sairaman -

Believing in God is great, getting obsessed with it is the problem

Jeanette Winterson - The Passion

It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.

Lisa Kleypas - Seduce Me at Sunrise

I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they would do, even for someone they love. I have none. No God, no moral code, no faith in anything. Except you. You're my religion. I would do anything you asked. I would fight, steal, kill for you."-Kev to Win

Jodi Picoult - Handle with Care

I think you can love a person too much.You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.

Julie Kagawa - The Iron Knight

I will be with her again, or I will die. There aren’t any other options

Arthur Conan Doyle - The Return of Sherlock Holmes

From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that ship because I knew her dear feet had trod it. She was never engaged to me. She treated me as fairly as ever a woman treated a man. I have no complaint to make. It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never

Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference

Paulo Coelho - The Zahir

Marie, let’s suppose that two firemen go into a forest to put out a small fire. Afterwards, when they emerge and go over to a stream, the face of one is all smeared with black, while the other man’s face is completely clean. My question is this: which of the two will wash his face? That’s a silly question. The one with the dirty face of course.’ No, the one with the dirty face will look at the other man and assume that he looks like him. And, vice versa, the man with the clean face will see his

J.R. Ward - Lover Mine

The truth was...he was in love with her. Totally over-the-line, no-going-back, not-even-dead-would-he-part kind of shit.

Rick Riordan - The Last Olympian

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.

Margaret Atwood -

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

Elie Wiesel -

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Jeffrey McDaniel -

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre

I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.

Emily Brontë -

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.

Jack Llawayllynn - Indulgence

I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can't see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for your taste, your smell, the feel of your soul touching mine.

W. Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights

May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there—not in heaven—not perished—where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to t

Ralph Waldo Emerson -

You become what you think about all day long.

Dave Barry - Dave Barry Does Japan

I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a moral person, but I'm definitely not religious, and I'm very tired of the preachiness and obsession with other people's behavior characteristic of many religious people in the United States. As far as I could tell, there's nothing preachy about Buddhism. I was in a lot of temples, and I still don't know what Buddhists believe, except that at one point Kunio said 'If you do bad things, you will be reb

Éliphas Lévi - El libro de los sabios: Obra postuma

Man's greatest wisdom is to choose his obsession well.

Dee Remy - There Once Was A Boy

We have formed a sick little friendship over the past year

Emme Rollins - Dear Rockstar

Sometimes there’s no cure for the crazy.” Dale sighed, stroking my hair. “I think we all just have to keep loving through it. Maybe that’s the cure.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.

Samuel Pineda Jr. -

Power is brilliant Beauty is madnessObsession is addictionPerfection is suicidal, I was born beyond the limits of an ordinary being. So honey make use of it I exist therefore to celebrate or to die.

W. Somerset Maugham - The Moon and Sixpence

Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it.""I've got to paint," he repeated."Supposing you're never anything more than third-rate, do you think it will have been worth while to give up everything? After all, in any other walk in life it doesn't matter if you're not very good; you can get along quite comfortably if you're jus

Steven Heighton -

Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook)

Rukamanee Maharjan -

Life is obsession and so is reading :D