Quotes About Obsession

The entire world wasn't after them. It only seemed that way.

They're book addicts.

They're book addicts.

Count Olaf was so obsessed with getting his filthy hands on the money that he hatched a devious plan that gives me nightmares to this day.

He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. But

He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and

The best books are like complicated surgery--first you can't get your head out of them, and then you can't get them out of your head.

There are over a thousand nerves in the human body, Shane, and you are on every last one of mine

It's amazing how low you go to get high.

Do you see how preoccupied everyone has been? This perspective explains a lot. How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can't slow down? They can't slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.

The problem was that our focused, obsessive drive to conquer nature and make ourselves more comfortable had left the natural systems of the planet polluted and on the verge of collapse. We

How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can't slow down? They can't slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live

In my junior year I discovered books. . . . Devoured [them] the way other kids did candy or sandwiches, spent days hunched over . . . my spine an oversized question mark.

Great lovers lie in hell, the poet says. Even now, long afterwards, I cannot destroy the images. They remain within me like the yearnings of an addict. I need only hear certain words, see certain gestures, and my thoughts begin to tumble. I despise myself for thinking of her. Even if she were dead, I would feel the same. Her existence blackens my life.

There is a fine line between knowing the stats your self-publishing generates and living your life around them. Some authors check their Amazon rank several times a day. That can only lead to madness and walking the streets talking to yourself.

I was already smitten, aroused, attracted, and addicted to him.

kleptomaniac

She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else. Everything is so insipid, so uninteresting, that does not relate to the beloved object!

Pero mi locura no ha sido el amor sino la vanidad.

her eyes devoured the following words

Harriet was one of those, who, having once begun, would be always in love.

El bien me lo hice a mí mismo al convertirla a usted en el objeto de mis pensamientos más afectuosos. No podía pensar en usted sin mimarla, con defectos y todo; y a fuerza de encariñarme con tantos errores creo que he estado enamorado de usted por lo menos desde que tenía trece años.

it is not everyone...who has your passion for dead leaves