Quotes About Obsession

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

Men are ruled by toys.

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God is the god of his idolatry.

Two things make smart men stupid, beautiful women and sports

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

Guys you have way too much invested in sport. Guys you are not the tenth man. You're a machine for turning beer into piss that's what you are!

Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

I sweat terror, Robyn! I'm scared every single second about every single goddamned thing. I worry obsessively about being buried under an avalanche of fear. Jesus, Robyn, I'm scared like only the truly crazy can be.' 'But that , you dope, is the definition of courage: you go on despite the fear.

For the Phantom, there is only one girl. For Sam, there is only one horse.

I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love.

For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch.

When there is no family, what else is there to fight for? I was blinded with obsession, for something that could never fill me. I lost everything that mattered.

Yes, I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart.

She was] a strange butterfly which had flown across his garden and which his eyes had continued to follow long after it had disappeared from sight.