Quotes About Obsession

To be entranced, to be driven, to be obsessed, to be under the spell of an emerging, not quite fully 'comprehended' narrative -- this is the greatest happiness of the writer's life even as it burns us out and exhausts us, unfitting us for the placid contours of 'normality.

One of my lifetime addictions, to this bitterly black steaming-hot liquid, would begin at this hour, in such innocence.

was in love with Briscoe

She didn't return to school until the first Monday in March. By that time she'd thought, thought long and hard, much of the time in solitude in her room, and healed herself. Of course, she kept up with her school assignments; she was diligent, even obsessive about that.

The real drug, I came to believe, was love.

511I love you. And I'm going to keep loving you even after you don't know I exist.

You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your desk are arranged in precise corners. If I had to guess, I would say you are probably a control freak, and that is usually symptomatic of a man who feels powerless to control his own life, so he tries to control every facet of his surroundings.

No longer was she an heiress from another world; she was the woman he had wanted to possess the moment he saw her, and she was sitting beside him, her hair cascading over his arm like a thick satin waterfall

What is it about you that demolishes my mind?

Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead.

You're very Johnny Depp in Secret Window.

whites' obsessive preoccupation with the happenstance of skin color?

That place [Disneyland] is my baby, and I would prostitute myself for it.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

Baseball isn't a business, it's more like a disease.

power becomes a slave to passion so easily, and to an unacknowledged passion easiest of all.

Wenn es tatsächlich das Orm war, das diese Bücher so besonders machte, dann war ich süchtig nach diesem Stoff, süchtig nach jeder von ihm gesättigten Zeile. Essen? Nebensache. Waschen? Zeitverschwendung. Nur Lesen, Lesen, Lesen war wichtig.

Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction.

Biblionekromantik ist keine Religion, eher das gegenteil. Sie haben lediglich ein morbides Verhältnis zu Büchern. Ihnen können die Schwarten gar nicht alt und zerbrechlich genug sein.

Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.

La autoobservación es uno de los procesos mentales más importantes para el crecimiento humano, pero si nos excedemos en su uso, colocándolo al servicio de esquemas obsesivos y/o perfeccionistas93, la enfermedad psicológica puede prosperar fácilmente.

Aquellos que se obsesionan con el éxito y lo convierten en un valor, y además manejan esquemas rígidos de ejecución, viajan mal aunque quieran aparentar lo contrario. Quizá la felicidad no esté en ser el mejor vendedor, la mejor mamá, el mejor hijo o descollar en cualquier cosa, sino simplemente en intentarlo de manera honesta y tranquila, y disfrutarlo mientras se lleva a cabo.

Querer algo con todas las fuerzas no es malo, convertirlo en imprescindible, sí.