Quotes About Obsession

Stop watching me," she'd say all the time, a little smile on her face because she was watching me too. "I can't help it," I'd reply "I'm fascinated by you, in love with you." "Well, go be fascinated and in love with the TV, I'm trying to sort things out, it's not easy with you watching.

He just hijacks me. I love him. And I won't be able to give anyone a real chance until that's over.

MYTH #2: ROMANTIC LOVE IS THE ONLY REAL LOVE Look at the lyrics of popular songs, or read some classical poetry: the phrases we choose to describe romantic love don't really sound all that pleasant. Crazy in love, love hurts, obsession, heartbreak Ã¢â'¬Â¦ these are all descriptions of mental or physical illness.

Figuring out Lorne consequently became something of an obsession for many on the show. They talked about him for hours, sometimes catching themselves using Lorne's favorite words or phrases, and an acknowledgment from him was enough to keep them motivated for weeks.

There's no such thing as addiction; there's only things you enjoy doing more than life." -- Doug Stanhope

She really had cast a spell on him.

In the West, the phone had become a drug even more addictive than opioids. In a culture becoming ever more secular, the phone had become a god.

As if the idea of not having a phone on and by one's side every waking instant was inconceivable.

a full-fledged addiction?" "When it becomes uncontrollable.

Ernest Hemingway had said, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Collections do not leave the collector unaffected. The art of collecting results in a certain turn of mind.

More broadly, it's the place where people who really love stuff go to express that love, and where people who want to sell them stuff try desperately to woo them.

As "voyeurs of billionaires" (Goolsbee, 2007) material excess has become our metronome of modern living.

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

They be starin at the money like its unfamiliar.

My mind was a mess back then as I drove across the country. I was driving to clear my head, and all I could do was obsess on my uncertain future. It's like you're at a crap game, and on your biggest roll, the dice go in slow motion. For months, you watch them spin and roll and bounce around, waiting for them to land so you know if you're a winner or a loser. Total limbo.

I have been insane on the subject of money-making all my life.

What if I told you that I put my whole life into Tintin?

I think life's an irrational obsession.

I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

You start living for the obsession alone ... You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you're enjoying the road or not.

The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.

One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.