Quotes About Obsession

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

It's a fantastic thing to take the risk of getting so close to your desire, expressing your obsession so absolutely.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

desire is a beast that must be fed!

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You

To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Trapped in infernoIt blazed brighter than the sunHis desire for her