Quotes About Obsession

I am still inside here, with my own thoughts, and my own worries, and my own obsessions, and my own rage.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Also, how could anyone who loves books not love a book that is itself so in love with books?

The thing about Americans," she said, "is that you're very concerned about everything all the time." Mom

at about page twenty or so, the magical thing occurred that happens only with the very best books: I became absorbed and obsessed and entered the "Can't you see I'm reading?" mode.

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

Don't try it," he said. The mutant was reading my mind. "You, boy, you're a literary trainspotter...

Hoeveel minder begerenswaardig zou Madelon misschien zijn als ik haar niet aan iemand ontstelen moest!

Is it of any significance I wonder that the two countries of the Western Hemisphere whose governments the United States would most like to overthrow - Venezuela and Cuba -have the greatest National obsession with baseball outside of the United States?

Many humans remain obsessed with the existence of hell. Their concepts are often primitive and heavily influenced by their religions. The

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

She felt him more than life to her and knew him lost, and the frenzy, that makes a woman kill the man she loves, or fling vitriol to destroy the beauty she cannot have for all hers, possessed her lawless soul.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

This is what I mean by quitting surfing. When you surf, as I then understood it, you live and breathe waves. You always know what the surf is doing. You cut school, lose jobs, lose girlfriends, if it's good.

I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would.

Binder didn't plan on being disappointed either. He felt a growing obsession to unstring the secrets the house held, to unravel the Gordian knot time and myth had only tightened.

I seen a pretty woman in a red dress, the old man said. And then I seen her take it off. What else is there?

Before she'd shared his bed, life had been pointless, but now it had become unbearable. She had appeared from nowhere and returned to it, but she'd taken over his life, left with a lien on his body, a mortgage on his soul.

I could not shake my point of view, infected as it was, and I took up their study with a manly passion.

This report inflamed my mind to such a degree that I could not rest by night or day for dreaming golden dreams, and considering how to get to that rich district, unknown to civilized men.

William Hjortsberg

In Battuta's obsession with sharia and the Muslim world and in his lack of interest in nearly everything outside it we clearly see the double-edged sword of Islam so visible in today's world: an ecumenical but self-satisfied faith capable of uniting far-flung peoples under one system of belief and one regime of law, but also severely limited in its capacity to examine and borrow from others.

We were too sick of the case to talk about it anymore but too obsessed with it to talk about anything else.

American culture is so appallingly superficial, fixated on celebrities, entertainment, sports, and self-indulgence.