Quotes About Obsession

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing

Dr. Buford's profession was medicine and his obsession was anything that grew in the ground, so he stayed poor.

I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial. I had no idea what that was. But I wanted to thrust my hand right inside her body and touch it, whatever it was.

Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. Before long I bought a small stereo and spent all my time in my room, listening to jazz records. But I had almost no desire to talk to anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. In that sense I could be called a stack-up loner.

Once I began a book, I couldn't put it down. It was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. But I had almost no desire to talk with anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else.

Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.

From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them. I'm generalizing, of course.

I know exactly what I'm doing, but I just can't stop. That's my greatest weakness.

I think it's an amazing achievement to find even one specific thing that you're interested in.

I was attracted to her from the first time we talked, and soon there was no turning back. For a long time she was the only thing I could think about. I tried to tell her how I felt, but somehow the feelings and the right words couldn't connect. Maybe it was for the best.

The image of her in another man's arms was stuck in my mind, as real as life. As if there was a demon with nowhere else to go clinging to a corner of the ceiling, eyes fastened on me.

No one noticed that I had changed- that I had given up sleep entirely, that I was spending all my time reading, that my mind was someplace a hundred years - and hundreds of miles - from reality.

Pills and fortune-telling and dieting: nobody can stop her when it comes to any of those things.

He said that when you are in love with someone, you want to follow them to the bathroom. He said love just makes you pathetic.

You came out of prison incredibly buff or with an addiction to paperback novels.

That was desire messing with physics: putting its finger on the record and then slowing it down, making sure you heard every word spoken, and memorized it.

Du hast Diamanten und Perlen, Hast alles, was Menschenbegehr, Und hast die schönsten Augen – Mein Liebchen, was willst du mehr? Auf deine schönen Augen Hab' ich ein ganzes Heer Von ewigen Liedern gedichtet – Mein Liebchen, was willst du mehr? Mit deinen schönen Augen Hast du mich gequält so sehr, Und hast mich zu Grunde gerichtet – Mein Liebchen, was willst du mehr?

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Our culture is too obsessed with outward appearance, age and status. Love is what matters.

Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.

The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.