Quotes About Obsession

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

Don't go to men who are willing to kill themselves driving in circles looking for normality.

Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.

Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.

Revenge is like a ghost... It takes over every man it touches... Its thirst cannot be quenched... Until the last man standing has fallen.

It's easier to look sexy when you're thinking of one man in particular.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup

When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else. He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found.

Man, the feeling of the make is something that I can't put to words, it's the very best feeling in the world. I just chase that, it's a very real feeling and straight up, I am addicted to it.

A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.

Kids who are obsessed with locks frequently turn into adults who are obsessed with crypto.

And so what moved him onward and down the office building's stairway was not any sort of foolish hope that he could actually be saved, but competitive fury at the fact that he had been outdone by the suicidal improvisations of this fanatic.

His mind was good, but he only understood one or two things in the whole world—samurai movies and the Macintosh—and he understood them far, far too well. It was a worldview with no room for someone like Juanita.

a collection of Bach organ fugues (nerds have a thing about Bach)

with anything else under UNIX (of which Finux is a variant), there are a million options that only young, lonely, or obsessed people have the time and patience to explore.

Modern English has given us two terms we need to explain this phenomenon: "geeking out" and "vegging out." To geek out on something means to immerse yourself in its details to an extent that is distinctly abnormal—and to have a good time doing it. To veg out, by contrast, means to enter a passive state and allow sounds and images to wash over you without troubling yourself too much about what it all means.

You got this ship for free!?" "Damn all Puritans and their base obsession with how much it costs!" Roger bellowed, shaking a tiny drumstick at Daniel's brow as if it were the club of Hercules.

charge blindly across the emotional minefield and get down as soon as possible to geeking out

You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day? Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.

I work, Monica, and I think about work, and I freak out about work, and I think about how much I think about work, and I freak out about how much I think about how much I think about work, and I think about how freaked out I get about how much I think about how much I think about work. Does that count as a hobby?