Quotes About Obsession

How could their passion have become so warped, so blighted?

I wanted you, Pharinet. Is that so terrible? I love your brother. It often frightens me how much. I have to possess what he possesses.

All that compels me now is a mindless quest to see the face of the one I have pursued.

I think he's a fabulously handsome man, who I could fall in love with, yet at the same time he does not seem like a man at all. I'm quite sure he'd never love me back. I like going to his house on Thremius's errands, just to look at him, but he's never noticed me at all.

If you dare try to leave me behind, I'll follow on foot, and when I die in the snow, Ill come back and haunt you. I'll make your life a complete misery. No ghost will ever have been as inventive in its nastiness as I'll be: I'll turn your food rancid; I'll transform your drink into blood; I'll howl and moan throughout the night; there'll be no place safe from me. And don't think I couldn't do it, Thirrin, Queen of Icemark, because I can assure you, I could.

The essay that follows, 'Why I Am so Clever,' plays on an obsession with his lungs and his stomach as central to the whole philosophical exercise. He becomes a diet-and-exercise guru. If you avoid coffee and live in dry air, you will attain health equal to his own. Odd that he bans coffee while delighting in the world-beating coffee of Turin.

Writing is born out of passion and desire, but it is bred, brought up, in obsession and compulsion. Feed your drive to persist. Damn your fears. Claim your writing as your own,

Obsession is an accidental haunting, by a person not aware she's a ghost.

I almost obsessively began reading about what was happening with the so-called Islamic State. But I couldn't find an angle on the story.

When I was old enough to know better, I ate a bar of soap in the shape of the Muppets' Fozzie Bear, because I loved him so much I wanted to consume him, even if doing so made me ill. I didn't yet know the word 'foreshadowing.' Fozzie was the only first of many pop-culture icons I feel shaped by.

Having the games on TV, I've always believed it's like watching a soap opera - fans can't wait for the next episode.

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.

Soccer is my life.

Our people love soccer more than they do in Brazil.

In Europe, it's different - you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer.

If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, Netherlands soccer.

I used to be so into soccer. I would wear soccer team hoodies, another soccer team's pants, and Manchester United earrings. And I had, like, five of everything, so I would just wear the same outfit all the time!

Soccer is still my favourite sport.

I had become obsessed with the control-freak aspect of photography and with the rising importance of the image in our social media age it ended up working.

I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There's no denying that through technology there are amazing things being created that help people with diseases or help people's dreams come true. But there's also this obsession. Social media is the most dangerous of them all.

It's so funny how social media was just this fun thing, and now it's this monster that consumes so many millennial lives.

If I did have social media, I would spend way to much time on it. It is way too addictive for me.

I just think everything in moderation. I've never been into diets and it can become an obsession for some people. At the end of the day, it's food. I really enjoy going out for dinner and everything I do socially revolves around eating.

A lot of people say they eat, drink, and sleep sports, but does anyone really do it, ingesting nothing but Dodger Dogs and Soda Shaqs and Greg Norman Zinfandels 24/7?