Quotes About Obsession

People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life.

I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it's for life.

Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.

Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you.

I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.

By now, you know everything about Jackson Clarke, probably way more than anyone on earth wants to hear. This is all I have to add: I still think about him every day. When I see him, my heart jumps up in my chest. I long for him to talk to me, and whenever he even says hello, I feel a thousand times worse than I did before. I wish he was dead. I wish he still liked me.

For Gat with everything, everything. Cady.

Can you imagine founding a cuisine on blueberries? Everyone would be so sick of them within a week, they'd starve to death. The blueberry has no versatility. The country with a cuisine based on the blueberry would be a country of lunatics, turned mad by the unwavering sameness of their daily meals.

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

When I'm not facing the face that I fancy,I fancy the face I face.

But it was the stupidity of passion, which would rather have nothing than a little.

This new type of entertainment created a new kind of human an audience not necessarily entertained but definitely mesmerized by immorality who over time became almost addicted to witnessing cruelty.

Somewhere out there, there's a thing so amazing that you can devote your life to it and never forget how special it is.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.

For me a current lover has always been like whatever current book I'm writing - an obsessive project orienting all my thoughts.

Leslie reads too much

The undercurrent of my every thought: To seek you, find you, have you for my own.

No sé qué hacer, ni sé qué pensar, no sé qué sentir. Y sin embargo estoy decidida a seguir sintiendo, pensando y haciendo. No voy a detenerme al costado de mi vida hasta tener las cosas claras. Soy tan obsesiva y tan insegura que se me puede ir la vida decidiendo. No voy a correr ese riesgo.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.