Quotes About Obsession

the human capacity for obsessional behavior and addiction has made a satanic marriage with modern pharmacology, marketing, and high-speed transportation.

Abby_Donovan: Heathcliff was a misogynistic asshole. MarkBaynard: Could you explain that to my Lit 101 class? I hate to see all those impressionable young females swoowing over him like he's Edward Cullen. Abby_Donovan: I've always been Team Jacob myself. And Team Mr Rochester.

It is not enough to love you. It is not enough to want you destroyed.

Travel down that road far enough and you forget entirely where you came from. The journey becomes the destination in a twisted sort of way. The need to acquire more of everything, to possess as much as there was to possess, was insatiable.

while Man worked all those years to discover the secrets of life, he never managed to escape his overpowering fascination for death.

She's the first thing in my mind when I wake and the last thing in my mind before I sleep. I've never felt like this before, Zedd, never felt this alone before.

Sometimes lunatics are so driven, they can take the whole world into madness with them.

Money is all you can think about when all you have is a price, Carrot said

In order to enhance the occult aspects of herself, Julia had begun to wear far too much handbeaten silver jewelry and green eyeshadow. She felt she looked haunted and gaunt and romantic, and she would have, if she had lost another thirty pounds. She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.

Life is addictive. If people complain overmuch, I think I will have to draw that fact to their attention.

Your voice is the wildest thing you own," Brooke says to me. "And you're giving it away. You can't see it. Your obsession is blinding you." He is angry. He is talking in shorthand. "You're losing yourself.

We could show them the most exquisite Ming vase, or a carved ivory screen from Persia, and they'd turn their backs and go straight for the human remains.

You carried your visions as a burden, but it was a gift. You still think of it as such. You think He above would reward you after what you have done? You have ruined lives with your obsession. It became your curse. When have you known a gift to be given twice? Once the package is open, is it still a gift?

This obsession with knowledge at the expense of human life, of ordinary human relations and pursuits, will destroy you

No, he must possess her if he could — to-day, quickly, as soon as possible. It was in that frame of mind that he returned to Mrs. Bracebridge's home from his visit to Lorrie Street.

Strange ambition. Strange perversion, one might almost say. In

Often we either don't plan at all, or we get caught up in obsessive planning because we fear the future and its uncertainty.

It's like I cannot separate myself from Jon Jones.

I, Joseph Francis Buck, became a hair-plug addict.

You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.

I have a huge crush on Josh Hutcherson and all the guys in One Direction!

It's like you get a high off the jumps, and you crave it, and you want to do it again and again and again.

Probably around junior high, I became obsessed with films.

I can focus on just one thing - that's basketball.