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Quotes About Obsession

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.
~ Stan Getz
Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.
~ James Iha
When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
~ Yanni
I'm addicted to something at all times. Like, it's always music, but maybe sometimes it's a pair of pants or something else. That's just how my personality works.
~ Mac Miller
Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop
~ Jakob Dylan
The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from my room.
~ Gelsey Kirkland
I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.
~ Alex O'Loughlin
Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.
~ Fritjof Capra
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
~ Thorstein Veblen
There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.
~ Charles Dickens
The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
~ Joseph Addison
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.
~ Virginia Woolf
In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.
~ Shirley Geok-lin Lim
The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.
~ Maaza Mengiste
Girls are obsessed with beauty. They make this world beautiful, by being beautiful.
~ Toffee, Finding Juliet
Most stories are not about peoplebut about life, an addiction like the rest of themthat destroys you even as you love it, but you love it anyway and can never get enough.
~ Michael Hogan, Winter Solstice
Like a tenacious ivy, your presence clings onto the drab wall of my existence. Cling harder onto me love, like a blood sucking bed-bug who is never satiated.
~ Malak El Halabi
Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.
~ Peter Morgan
Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure.
~ Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.
~ John Knowles
Showing cats is addictive. All you need is one rosette and you're hooked.
~ Donna Andrews
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
~ Thomas Otway
I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.
~ Francoise Sagan