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Quotes About Obsession

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
~ Sharon Salzberg
If I wasn't writing poems, I'd be washing my hands all the time.
~ Sherman Alexie
That's right, I am a book kisser.
~ Sherman Alexie
She endured a contentious and passionate relationship with this library. The huge number of books confirmed how much magic she'd been denied for most of her life, and now she hungrily wanted to read every book on every shelf. An impossible task, to be sure, Herculean in its exaggeration, but Corliss wanted to read herself to death. She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks. She
~ Sherman Alexie
So maybe they are mute with post-traumatic stress. Maybe they don't know how to talk about Mike. I often wonder why I'm the one who remembers All the pain. Why am I the one who remains obsessed By the bloody nose, but rarely remembers any joy?
~ Sherman Alexie
She knew Indians were obsessed with authenticity. Colonized, genocided, exiled, Indians formed their identities by questioning the identities of other Indians. Self-hating
~ Sherman Alexie
Have you ever wanted something that you knew was bad for you? Something that you ached for so much you could think of nothing else? [Wren]
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Well . . . he lets it ruin his life. He gets so obsessed with going after the one thing that hurt him that he loses sight of everything else. He becomes isolated from everyone and everything. Paranoid. He feels like he can't trust anyone around him ever. In the end, he loses everything, even his life. And for what? Total stupidity, if you ask me.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Have you ever wanted something that you knew was bad for you? Something that you ached for so much that you could think of nothing else?" "Yes, which is why I always end up eating the whole chocolate bar anyway.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I just wanted Kerry to notice me. (Geek Human) For the record, kid, summoning a demon to kidnap her, not the best way to meet a woman. It usually backfires on you. (Jericho)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Aren't you ever satisfied? I swear if I were mortal, I'd be limping from our last go-round. If not dead. We really need to find you a hobby other than jumping on top of me. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
he broke her heart and made her crave his touch even while she was trying to figure out where to hide his body.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Being in love was vastly different from loving someone. When you were in love, it consumed you. Devoured you. And made you deliriously happy.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Es imposible no amar a una mujer cuyo único fin en la vida es verte desnudo.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
~ Dani Shapiro
I have a few obsessions in life, and one is shoes!
~ Danielle Steel
All my life I've pursued the perfect red.
~ Diana Vreeland
Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.
~ Diane Setterfield
There's people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they're going to be successes. I've had two or three stalkers in my life
~ Dustin Diamond
I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s.
~ Ed Robertson
I have drawn all my life, I don't know how to live without drawing.
~ Eduardo Chillida
You really don't do anything else in your life; it's a very little bubble that you grow up in. And you have to live in that bubble because of the intensity of the sport.
~ Estella Warren
Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
~ Francois Cavanna