Quotes About Obsession

After we come down from the high of the "in-love" obsession, the emotional need for love resurfaces because it is fundamental to our nature.

After studying scores of couples, she concluded that the average life span of a romantic obsession is two years.

the average life span of a romantic obsession is two years.

The shock waves would rumble through business, industry, church, education, and the rest of society. Why? Because people who are "in love" lose interest in other pursuits. That is why we call it "obsession." The college student who falls head over heels in love sees his grades tumbling. It is difficult to study when you are in love.

Research indicates that the average life span of the "in love" obsession is two years.1 For some it may last a bit longer; for some, a bit less. But the average is two years. Then we come down off the emotional high and those aspects of life that we disregarded in our euphoria begin to become important.

I desire you, it's as simple and awful as that.... it's idiotic, but I love you.

with a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students

For modern humans, word associating has become 'obsessional'.

Does he love you so much? He would commit murder for me.

When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.

I am dying of love. That is how it is...I loved her so! And I love her still....and am dying of love for her. - I kissed her alive...and she looked as beautiful as if she had been dead. ~ Erik

You see, Christine, there is some music that is so terrible that it consumes all those who approach it.

You must know . . . that I'm made entirely of death, from head to foot, and that it's a corpse loves you, adores you, and will never leave you, never! I'm going to have the coffin enlarged, Christine, for later, when we've come to the end of our love.

And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow which followed her like her own shadow, which stopped when she stopped, which started again when she did and which made no more noise than a well-conducted shadow should. As for Raoul, he saw nothing either; for, when he had Christine in front of him, nothing interested him that happened behind. Chapter

No, no, you have driven me mad! When I think that I had only one object in life: to give my name to an opera wench!

He {Erik} filled Christine's mind through the terror with which he inspired her, but the dear child's heart belonged wholly to the Vicomte Raoul de Chagny. While they played about like an innocent engaged couple on the upper floors of the opera, to avoid the monster, they little suspected that someone was watching over them.

Know that it is a corpse who loves you, worships you, and will never, never, leave you.

Secular humanists of every type may ridicule the Bible, but they cannot escape it; and in their obsession with change, calls for reform, doomsday warnings, and utopian visions, they continue to steal from it.

I have said that I cannot explain my desire for her, and it is true. I loved her with a love thirsty and desperate. I felt that we two might commit some act so atrocious that the world, seeing us, would find it irresistible.

For after all, if the lives of most men are examined in detail, it will be found that they have been experts of immense stature in some unremunerated field, the strategy and theory of some sport or the practice of some craft, have had an exhaustive knowledge of old circus posters or eighteenth-century inn signs or the mathematics of comets; and nothing so distinguished Professor Peacock from the ruck of men as his air of amateurishness.

Some are haunted by ghosts. I am haunted by stories.

My hunger fed at least as ravenously upon her imperfections.

The obsession will end when you love yourself enough to stop hurting yourself. Who doesn't want to take care of what they love?

The relentless attempts to be thin take you further and further away from what could actually end your suffering: