Quotes About Obsession

What is it about him that makes you, like, totally lose your shit?

He looked up at her. "I can't tell you why. She may be a fiend from hell to make me feel this way, but even if I have to hate myself for the rest of my life, this is what I want." He shook his head, perhaps in self-contempt, and shrugged. "I dream about her at night." Eddis looked down at him and said dryly, "We have heard you screaming.

Yeah. He's crazy alright." She raised her eyebrows. "Crazy in love—with ME!!!

I love her because she has become something more to me. She has become my life. -Jack

She was very special to me. But I think I'm going to have to get back...so I can. God. So I can kill her. -Dylan

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves. We feel like we are doing something to solve our problems, but we're not.

At least we know we're alive if we're reacting. At least we've got something to do if we're obsessing or controlling. For

OBSESSION Codependents

Worrying and obsessing keep us so tangled in our heads we can't solve our problems. Whenever we become attached in these ways to someone or something, we become detached from ourselves.

When people with a compulsive disorder do whatever it is they are compelled to do, they are not saying they don't love you—they are saying they don't love themselves.

It is a hunger with me, books. I had rather read than eat, I do think.

Make someone a devout, fanatical anything, and his brain turns to mulch.

It seems to me that evil is a kind of ultimate greed, a greed that is so all-encompassing that it can't ever see anything lovely, rare, or precious without wanting to possess it. A greed so total that if it can't possess these things, it will destroy them rather than chance that someone else might have them. And a greed so intense that even having these things never causes it to lessen one iota -- the lovely, the rare and the precious never affect it except to make it want them.

It seems to me that evil is a kind of ultimate greed, a greed that is so all-encompassing that it can't ever see anything lovely, rare, or precious without wanting to possess it. A greed so total if it can't possess these things, it will destroy them rather than chance that someone else might have them. And a greed so intense that even having these things never causes it to lessen one iota - the lovely, the rare, and the precious never affect it except to make it want them.

Once you get into it, it's all you can think about. Look, I know you don't trust my judgment because I eat cat shit. Someday I'll explain that to you. But right now do what I say. Just pick up the ball and throw it.

But haven't all ambitious people something of the monstrous about them? You, sir, for instance, if you will forgive me, are a little bit monstrous.

what haunts the heart will, when it is found, leap foremost, blinding the eye and leaving the main of Life in darkness.

Worrying and obsessing keep us so tangled m our heads we can't solve our problems.

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

Men come to sex hoping that it will provide them with all of the emotional satisfaction that would have come from love. Most men think that sex will provide them with a sense of being alive, connected, that sex will offer closeness, intimacy, pleasure. And more often than not sex simply does not deliver the goods. This fact does not lead men to cease obsessing about sex; it intensifies their lust and their longing.

Many of us choose relationships of affection and care that will never become loving because they feel safer. The demands are not as intense as loving requires. The risk is not as great. So many of us long for love but lack the courage to take risks. Even tough we are obsessed with the idea of love the truth is that most of us live relatively decent, somewhat satisfying lives even if we often feel that love is lacking.

Our cultural obsession with death consumes energy that could be given to the art of loving.