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Quotes About Obsession

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
~ Albert Camus
O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!
~ James Hogg
And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion.
~ Stephenie Meyer
When I finally bought one, the Buchla was my only piece of furniture. I lived with that thing. It was my boyfriend! I thought there was something wrong with me, because I was in love with a machine
~ Suzanne Ciani
There's this cliché of always falling in love with the latest song, and I'm kind of like that.
~ Tove Lo
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.
~ Anthony Powell
I'd fallen in love with the devil.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around.
~ Hunter Hayes
Coronary artery calcification has long been recognized as a big risk factor for heart disease, but for some reason we continue to obsessively focus on cholesterol, while few people have heard much about the calcium connection.
~ Jonny Bowden
You don't choose who you fall in love with, do you? And once you do fall in love—that obsessive sort of love, that all-consuming love, where two people can't stand to be apart from each other for even a moment—how are you supposed to let a love like that pass you by?
~ Jordan Belfort
I rolled up my sleeve. Penned on my arm in my own writing: If I prove I'm not selfish, Daniel will love me.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge.
~ Jordan Sonnenblick
João José, o Professor, desde o dia em que furtara um livro de histórias numa estante de uma casa da Barra, se tornara perito nestes furtos. Nunca, porém, vendia os livros, que ia empilhando num canto do trapiche, sob tijolos, para que os ratos não os roessem. Lia-os todos numa ânsia que era quase febre.
~ Jorge Amado
The truth. Why are we so obsessed with the truth—begging for it, asking for it, demanding it, when all we really want to do is confirm our own vision of reality?
~ Jorge Volpi
Pasiunea e o stare patologic? ce presupune imperfec?iunea unui suflet.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Sufletul unui îndr?gostit miroase a camer? de bolnav neaerisit?,a atmosfer? închis?,alimentat? chiar de pl?mânii ce o vor ÅŸi respira.AÅŸa se face c? întreaga îndr?gostire tinde automat c?tre frenezie.L?sat? în voia ei,ea va continua s? se multiplice pân? la ultima extremitate posibil?.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Let Rufus weep, rejoice, stand, sit, or walk, Still he can nothing but of Nævia talk: Let him eat, drink, ask Questions, or dispute, Still he must speak of Nævia, or be mute. He writ to his Father, ending with this Line, I am, my Lovely Nævia, ever thine.
~ Joseph Addison
Let Caesar have the world, if Marcia's mine.
~ Joseph Addison
But it seemed to Tristan as though an ardent briar, sharp-thorned but with flower most sweet smelling drave roots into his blood and laced the lovely body of Iseult all round about it and bound it to his own and to his every though and desire.
~ Joseph Bédier
I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing.
~ Joseph Kosinski
It wasn't love," Squirrelflight growled. "It was obsession. To love another cat is to put their needs first. But Ashfur only ever put himself first.
~ Erin Hunter
You're obsessed with the past," Jaypaw warned her. "You want to make sure everything turns out the way you think it should.
~ Erin Hunter
I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.
~ Erin Morgenstern
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
~ Erma Bombeck