Quotes About Obsession

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

There are certain images that always haunt me.

When I was 13 years old, I was obsessed with horror films. I even had, like, a binder that I filled with badly copied images from the Internet of, like, 'Pinhead and Basket Case.'

Football is my life, and I cannot imagine myself doing anything other than playing this game.

I have a hard time imagining a life without basketball.

I'm a big fan of films that I grew up on and would watch obsessively, over and over again. If I didn't feel like I got everything on the first watch good, I want to see it again immediately.

I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!

Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work.

My idea of splashing out would be buying a new spanner. I've got about 300 - you can't have too many in my opinion.

Fanaticism never sleeps: it is never glutted: it is never stopped by philanthropy; for it makes a merit of trampling on philanthropy: it is never stopped by conscience; for it has pressed conscience into its service.

Attention is a drug. There's no going back.

She felt herself strangling with a great rush of passion. She fell violently, monstrously, in love...

Thoughts, pictures of him would come to me just a second after waking, shocking me from the forgetfulness of sleep, striking blows that were almost physical. And even in sleep I was not completely free. So often sleep brought dreams of him.

Exhuming a few symbolic tidbits from the late poet Bert Meyers's works, lest we forget… 'To My Enemies' Maddened by you for whom the cash register, with its clerical bells, is a national church; you, whose instant smile cracks the earth at my feet... ___ 'Homecoming' My home was a watercolor I left in the rain ... ____ 'Signature' And my obsession's a line I can't revise.

At such times he would think, 'What will I do if she does not love me as much as I love her?' A terrible reply came from his heart, 'Kill her.

You obsess (but of course you obsess) until the joy is gone from that thing you'd loved, until your fury overwhelms your passion, until you no longer know how to sit with your back against a tree and write poetry that no one will ever see.

The thing about obsessing about a happy ending is that you forget to enjoy the journey along the way, You forget to appreciate the people alongside you.

I get needy I need more than any person should need anything

obsession with sensual pleasures, holding firmly to sensual pleasures that khattiyas fight with khattiyas, brahmins with brahmins, and householders with householders." "Why is it, Master Kacc?na, that ascetics fight with ascetics?" "It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.

One of the main sources of mental corruption in this country is the ghost of Vince Lombardi: don't matter how you play the game, don't matter if you enjoy the game, don't matter if the game means anything, the important thing is TO WIN. I think that's as good a definition of mental illness as you're ever gonna get.

I have no average day. I have no free time. I have no hobbies. I live through my obsessions.

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows ' which I followed avidly as a kid.

That said, Fatal Vision does have a major virtue. McGinniss is genuinely obsessed with his story … with that story. That's the flaw of the book; McGinniss is so obsessed with his material that he doesn't know when to shut up about it.