Quotes About Obsession

a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

I feel like my whole life only tennis.

This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.

Fanatics," Halt said. "Don't you just love 'em?

There is a man you see in casinos, usually small, usually dressed by JCPenney, usually not a gambler, who creeps around in soft shoes with a smile of fascination stuck on his face and the body language of a Peeping Tom. He dreams of sniffing your armpits. Or he wants to sit where you just sat. All while he wears his JCPenney costume and speaks in harmless drivel.

The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.

Meanwhile, a plan had slowly been forming in Ariel Castro's head. He had decided to kidnap a young girl and imprison her as his sex slave, to satisfy his lustful cravings. Since Nilda and his children had left, he had become obsessed with sadomasochistic sex and humiliation. His sexual fantasies had become darker and darker and his basement was now full of hard-core S-and-M sex videos.

Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.

The South's] obsession was to maintain a government, an economy, an arrangement of the sexes, a relationship of the races, and a social system that had never existed...except in the fertile imagination of those who would not confront either the reality that existed or the change that would bring them closer to reality.

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.

una locura con un inconfundible toque de inteligencia, porque provocará que me sume a ella.»

Find the psychosis in flower, he thought.

El homicidio en primer grado no prescribe. La venganza tampoco. —Lo miró—. Supongo que parezco obsesiva, pero lo llevo en la sangre.

era un hombre rutinario y ordenado. Su minuciosidad y formalidad rozaban sin duda la obsesión; creía que imponer tanta disciplina a su vida cotidiana era la única forma segura de intentar interpretar el desconcierto y el caos que sus pacientes le acercaban a diario.

My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.

Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.

But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.

fensiveness n. A knee-jerk territorial reaction when a friend displays a casual interest in one of your obsessions.

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

René Descartes had a fetish for cross-eyed women.