Quotes About Obsession

The Warrenite Christian is like a Star Wars geek who dressed up in costume and dearly wishes he lived the Star Wars universe. Sometimes such a fan will even spend as much time as he can in weekend costume conventions. For Warrenites, that's going to church.

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.

But how could she have forgotten who he was—a man who could lose himself in a single book, not to mention a world-class, open-stack library, for hours on end?

I had some time ago decided that the money-makers on the grand scale are monomaniacs and fanatics and self-willed.

A lawyer caught in the toils of a murder case is like a man newly fallen in love: his involvement is total.

A half-dead thing in a stark dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold.

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.

Fanaticism is ... compensation for doubt

I know well enough how people in love drag the name of the loved one into every conversation, simply to utter that magical word, to savor it on the tongue.

My God, you're like a med student. You hear of a new disease and five minutes later either you or the kids have it.

Life really does favor the obsessed. Great fortune truly does shine on those mesmerized by their gorgeous ambitions. And the universe most definitely supports the human being unwilling to surrender to the forces of fear, rejection and self-doubt.

Todas las mujeres y todos los hombres heroicos del mundo han sido perfeccionistas. Eran verdaderos optimizadores, enormemente obsesionados porque todo lo que hacían fuera destacable.

soy una adicta a la tecnología. No puedo parar de consultarlo todo. Es la primera cosa que hago por la mañana y la última por la noche. Está consumiendo mi concentración.

Eli: 'If a machine like that really existed, people would be willing to kill for it. Lots of people.' Nora: 'Yeah, and if hot vampires really existed, suicide would be a viable option for wrinkle prevention. Your point?

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

Because, in our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

The text you write must prove to me that it desires me.

Any demand is frigid until desire, until neurosis forms in it.

Since I've been taking care of her, the last six months in fact, she was everything for me, and I've completely forgotten that I'd written. I was no longer anything but desperately hers.

Is love then, that madness I *want*?

Our plan is one, one and again one alone—to reach the pole. For that goal, I have decided to throw everything else aside.

It turned out that before he had stalked Garfield, Charles Guiteau had stalked Grant.

This feud, rife with intrigue and lacerating polemics, was to take on an almost pathological intensity.

His gifts also reflected his own obsessive concern with longevity.