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Quotes About Obsession

A única obsessão que todos querem: 'amor'. As pessoas pensam que ao se apaixonar, elas se tornam inteiras? A união platônica de almas? Eu penso o contrário. Eu acho que você é inteiro antes de começar. E o amor quebra você. Você está inteiro, e então está quebrado.
~ Philip Roth
A única obsessão que todos querem: 'amor'. As pessoas pensam que ao se apaixonar, elas se tornam inteiras? A união platônica de almas? Eu penso o contrário. Eu acho que você é inteiro antes de começar. E o amor quebra você. Você está inteiro, e então está quebrado.
~ Philip Roth
He was supposed to get through dinner not thinking about the only things he could think about. He was supposed to do this forever.
~ Philip Roth
Pyorrhea. Gingivitis. Swollen gums. One schmutzig mouth after another. Schmutz is her métier.
~ Philip Roth
Drenka Balich's perfectionism on the job was not her only immoderate inclination.
~ Philip Roth
She had a huge pull on me, a huge gravitational pull on the ghost of my desire. This woman was in me before she even appeared.
~ Philip Roth
But then I thought, Why bestow on him all this thinking? Why the appetite to know this guy? Ravenous because once upon a time he said to you and to you alone, "Basketball was never like this, Skip"? Why clutch at him? What's the matter with you? There's nothing here but what you're looking at.
~ Philip Roth
We sometimes use the term "savior complex" to describe an unhealthy syndrome of obsession over curing others' problems. The true Savior, however, seemed remarkably free of such a complex. He had no compulsion to convert the entire world in his lifetime or to cure people who were not ready to be cured.
~ Philip Yancey
The great thing is to be always reading but never to get bored—treat it not like work, more as a vice!
~ Philip Zaleski
Affection is not important to you, nor to me. You want power Margaret, power and wealth; and so do I. Nothing matters as much as this to either of us, and we will sacrifice anything for it.
~ Philippa Gregory
It's not a question of wanting to be queen; it's not even a question of wanting honorable love anymore. I am mad for him, I am madly in love with him. I would go to him if I had to walk barefoot. Tell me I am one of many. I don't care! I don't care for my name or for my pride anymore. As long as I can have him once more, that's all I want, just to love him; all I want to be certain of is that I will see him again, that he loves me.
~ Philippa Gregory
Her beauty completely erased by jealousy.
~ Philippa Gregory
Anne shook her head. "I'll not be safe until she is dead," she said. "Just as she will not be safe until I am dead. It is not just a matter now of a man or a throne, it is as if I am her shadow and she is mine. We are locked together till death. One of us has to win outright and neither of us can be sure that we have won or lost until the other is dead and in the ground.
~ Philippa Gregory
Because I love you desperately. Because I can't sleep for thinking of you. Because I burn up with desire for you. Because I dare not look at you, because if I did, every man and woman at court would see all that that in my eyes.
~ Philippa Gregory
A few are addicted to mud. They wallow in it constantly." "They can't have many friends." "That's the funny thing! They have almost as many friends as the clean people. The trouble is, the friends are all the same kind of people.
~ Piers Anthony
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
~ Plato
El amor es una grave enfermedad mental.
~ Platon
I carried my pint to a corner table and sat just looking at it for a moment: the head of foam, the tiny bubbles ascending through clear gold, the droplets condensing on the sides of the glass, then running down to form a wet circle on the beer mat. Reputations are ruined, marriages destroyed, lifes works forsaken for the beauty of such a sight. There are seven thousand pubs in London.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
knew how hungrily they would lap up the twin rivers of blood and milk.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
demasiado joven, que te obsesiona con sus peticiones de ayuda, o con su simple «estar», que ya en sí es una súplica, es una constante de la vida en el Lager. La necesidad de solidaridad, de una voz humana, de un consejo, incluso sólo de alguien que escuchase, era permanente y universal, pero se satisfacía raramente.
~ Primo Levi
Ja volim samoubilacki-krvnicki nemilosrdno i brutalno. Necu drugacije. Ko to moze da izdrzi, a upoznah samo jednog. 'Moja je krv moj put do tebe.
~ Unknown
A lifetime of cannibal hatred
~ R. Scott Bakker
It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other: and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterward in the hope of being in Paradise again.
~ Unknown
You have ink in your blood, boy, and no help for it. Books will never be just a business to you.
~ Rachel Caine