Quotes About Obsession

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the mind as the wish to forget it.

protective of his gleaming domain, beavering away in it alone like an obsessed scientist in a humid and luridly lit laboratory.

What do his ambitions matter, if those are her collar-bones?

Hermann Boerhaave still defined melancholia as merely a long persistent delirium without fever, during which the sufferer is obsessed by only one thought.

Perhaps Bolm thought that, faced with all this, Eugenia would be cured of her obsession. Instead, she saw only India's enchantments. She was, she writes, "[h]appy beyond measure to be there." Europe would never feel like home again.

Every demon loves Sweeney Todd, you know. It's kind of a given.

I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good things will not last. . . But photos provide a false sense of security> like our flawed memory, they are guaranteed to fade. . . . We take photographs in order to remember, but it is in the nature of a photograph to forget (pg 157)

Who wouldn't put an entire world on the line for the off chance of getting their hands on a creature that doesn't sleep and won't leave them alone?

I wanted her so badly, my heart hung out of my chest like some hound-dog's tongue, pant, pant.

She kissed her like she'd been stranded on an island, notching each stranded day onto a fallen coconut, slowly losing her mind. She filled Michelle like weather, worked her mouth like a cherry stem being tongued into a knot.

Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance.

How can an attraction rooted in such deep insecurity not result in obsession?

como una especie de droga; te exalta, pero a su vez crea una fuerte dependencia, por lo que es posible convertirse en un gran adicto a él. Y

She must either forget him or die herself. It was impossible to go on like this. Impossible! She must forget him, forget him at any cost! But she could not forget him, that was the trouble.

Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.

Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. Their situation is a dangerous as the situation in the first category. One day the eyes of their beloved will close, and the room will go dark.

But all he could think of was what Sabina would have said about it. Everything he did, he did for Sabina, the way Sabina would have liked to see it done. It was a perfectly innocent form of infidelity and one eminently suited to Franz, who would never have done his bespectacled student-mistress any harm. He nourished the cult of Sabina more as a religion than as love

Yes, it's crazy.Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.

Tomas lived under the hypnotic spell cast by the excruciating beauty of Tereza's dreams.

She was amazed at the number of years she had spent pursuing one lost moment.

She admired her passion, knowing that passion is by definition excessive.

he tried to remind himself , don't think about her! don't think about her! he said to himself, i am sick with compassion

No esta obsesionado por las mujeres, esta obsesionado por lo que hay en cada una de ellas de inimaginable, esta obsesionado por esa millonésima diferencial que distingue a una mujer de las demás mujeres