Quotes About Obsession

The crazed Argentine was far more concerned with people worshiping him than protecting the faith.

desire is the killer of reason.

The good news is that Christ frees us from the need to obnoxiously focus on our goodness, our commitment, and our correctness. Religious has made us obsessive almost beyond endurance. Jesus invited us to a dance...and we've turned in into a march of soldiers, always checking to see if we're doing it right and are in step and in line with the other soldiers. We know a dance would be more fun, but we believe we must go through hell to get to heaven, so we keep marching.

Until a Christian struggles with the issue of freedom, he or she will remain frightened, obsessive, and bound.

We determine what is good, what is bad, what ought to be, and what ought not to be- all out of our inclinations of mind. But we seldom recognize the total relativity- the total meaninglessness – of all our defining. We don't see that it's through our obsession with meaning that we create meaninglessness.

I]t's through our obsession with meaning that we create meaninglessness.

To Mirabelle, the idea of being an object of obsession is alluring and represents a powerful love. She fails to understand, however, that men become obsessive over beautiful women because they want no one else to have them, but they fall in love with women like Mirabelle because they want a certain, specific part of them.

I am tired, so very tired of thinking about Lacey Yeager, yet I worry that unless I write her story down, and see it bound and tidy on my bookshelf, I will be unable to ever write about anything else.

Each rereading of the commonplace book becomes a new kind of revelation. You see the evolutionary paths of all your past hunches: the ones that turned out to be red herrings; the ones that turned out to be too obvious to write; even the ones that turned into entire books. But each encounter holds the promise that some long-forgotten hunch will connect in a new way with some emerging obsession.

Given that seven of the top twenty most-visited sites on the Web are porn sites, and that nearly 33 percent of all Internet searches are for terms related to sex, it's safe to say that we're sinking a ton of time and money into digital voyeurism.

The food-crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in hopes of adding five years on to the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.270

But after the September 11, 2001, attacks, terrorism became an obsession. Pundits and politicians turned up the rhetoric to eleven, and the word existential (generally modifying threat or crisis) had not seen as much use since the heyday of Sartre and Camus.

Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.

I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states you can experience when you're in love, especially the first love when you think you're going to die.

You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.

You have to love what you do to the point that you can't imagine doing anything else with your life.

There's always a threat surrounding the things you love

So many people preach that they love fashion, but really it's what I live for!

Love is madness, and lust is poison.

Next to me, Saiman smiled. "We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck.

I love you as one loves certain dark things.

You can't make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in

I love pizza so much, I would marry pizza, but it would just be an elaborate ploy to eat her whole family at the reception.