Quotes About Obsession

if you are names without a nature, it's not because I don't remember, no, the opposite is true, you are remembered in me as an endless stirring and turning. But it's for this precisely that you must forgive me, because in every story of obsession there's only one character, only one plot. I am writing about myself alone, it's all I know, and for this reason I have always failed in every love, which is to say at the very heart of life.

Learning the truth has become my life's love.

Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.

But energy must flow somewhere," his voice continued. "Where energy meets obstructions, it burns — and if energy builds up beyond what a given individual can tolerate, it demands release. Anger grows into rage, sorrow turns to despair, concern becomes obsession, and physical aches become agony. So energy can also be a curse. Like a river, it can bring life, but untamed it can unleash a raging flood of destruction.

I nevertheless understood at that second the ancient obsession of the God-fearing for another kind of fear: the thrill of exorcism, the mindless whirl of Dervish possession, and the almost erotic surrender of seance, speaking in tongues, and Zen Gnostic trance. I realized at that instant just how surely the affirmation of demons or the summoning of Satan somehow can affirm the reality of their mystic antithesis -the God of Abraham.

Odd how many suffering members of humankind have faced eternity obsessed with their bowels, their bedsores, or the meagerness of their diets.

Never poor vain creature was so wrapt up with every part of the story as I was, not considering what was before me, and how near my ruin was at the door; indeed, I think I rather wished for that ruin than studied to avoid it.

the worry habit is reinforcing in the same sense that superstitions are. Since people worry about many things that have a very low probability of actually occurring—a loved one dying in a plane crash, going bankrupt, and the like—there is, to the primitive limbic brain at least, something magical about it. Like an amulet that wards off some anticipated evil, the worry psychologically gets the credit for preventing the danger it obsesses about. The

Like an amulet that wards off some anticipated evil, the worry psychologically gets the credit for preventing the danger it obsesses about.

She had the look in her eye when you kick and kick at the door and it doesn't open, when you write a boy letters and letters and he never loves you, not 'til the day he dies. Not even then.

I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was why it was doomed.

Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less—filling

The true nature of desire is to disappear in the intensity of its search.

it just sat there hour after hour pushing the button and giving itself jolts of pleasure. It passed up food, it passed up sex.

People always do crazy things when they're in love.

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.

If I don't log into Facebook two days in a row, call the police, someone must've kidnapped me!

I never wanted someone as badly as I want you.

No one forgets their first love. You're experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine and that obsession with one another for the very first time in your life, so it makes it that much more cute.

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

Find something you are passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with?"

"Never give up on something you can't go a day without thinking about."

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.