Quotes About Obsession

I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

His subtle obsession with uniqueness troubled all his dreams.

If you knew there was somebody out there afoot that had two million dollars of your money, at what point would you quit lookin for em? That's right. There aint no such a point.

He'd long been wearing the underclothes of his female victims but now he took to appearing in their outerwear as well. A gothic doll in illfit clothes, its carmine mouth floating detached and bright in the white landscape.

There's a kind of man that when he cant have what he wants he wont take the next best thing but the worst he can find.

What a man seeks is beauty, plain and simple. No other way to put it. The rustle of her clothes, her scent. The sweep of her hair across his naked stomach ( . . . ) That the man knows not how to even name that which enslaves him hardly lightens his burden.

He thought perhaps if he dreamt of him enough he'd go away forever and be dead among his kind

A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves. No matter even if it kills him? I think so. Yes. No matter what.

If someone said to you that you had thrown your life away over a woman what would you say? Well thrown.

Borman looked around. Somewhere out here the last ivorybill died. Thirty years ago probably. I still listen for them. What sense does that make? They're gone forever. I didnt know you were a bird watcher. I'm not. I'm a forever watcher. Forever is a long time.

Yet an obsession with white racism often comes at the expense of more broadly based alliances to affect social change and borders on tribal mentality.

All writers are insane!

What a plague love is!

Yes,' she whispered. 'He was more worried about the book than me.

Some books you read, some you enjoy, but some books just swallow you up, heart and soul..

Tapi suatu saat nanti dia mungkin akan semiskin tikus karena membelanjakan semua uangnya untuk membeli buku. Aku takut dia juga tak akan ragu menjual jiwanya jika ada iblis yang bisa memberikan buku yang diinginkannya

Becoming obsessed with what people think is the quickest way to forget about what God thinks.

She resembled Anna Karenina, the kind of woman that if you want to kill, you have to hit with a train.

Instead of trying to create the most enjoyable experience, they unthinkingly worked as much as possible, stockpiling useless treasure." The researchers called this phenomenon "mindless accumulation

How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood! she said.

you love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.

Can you never like things without clutching them as if you wanted to pull the heart out of them?

ravished by dead words become obscene, and dead ideas become obsessions.