Quotes About Obsession

He had never even glimpsed her.

My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control.

Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.

If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

Fear is sweat, but terror is addictive.

Fear can be headier than whiskey once man has acquired a taste for it.

Sometimes we waste too much time on thinking about someone who doesn't even think about us for one second.

What consumes your mind, controls your life.

Life is a careful balance between making the right choices and not obsessing over making the wrong ones.

The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy

If you could just get off of my mind for 10 seconds...Maybe I could fall asleep.

There must be something inaccessible in what we love, something to pursue; we love only what we do not possess, and soon I began once more to realize that I did not possess Albertine.

By an inverse gymnastic, I who had made a mental effort to add to Rachel all that Saint-Loup had added to her of himself, I attempted to subtract the support of my heart and mind from the composition of Albertine and to picture her to myself as she must appear to Saint-Loup, as Rachel had appeared to me. Those differences, even though we were to observe them ourselves, what importance would we attach to them

the object of her most trivial thoughts, and the goal of her most important actions

When one is in love one has no love left for anyone.

we love only that in which we pursue something inaccessible, we love only what we do not possess,

C'est toujours l'attachement à l'objet qui entraine la mort du possesseur

But, just as we do not possess that sense of direction with which certain birds are endowed, so we lack the sense of our own visibility as we lack that of distances, imagining as quite close to us the interested attention of the people who on the contrary never give us a thought, and not suspecting that we are at the same time the sole preoccupation of others.

I shall see myself that Morel is mine." This unmistakeableness in the eyes of everyone, in his own eyes, made M. de Charlus happiest of all. For the possession of what one loves is a joy greater than love itself.

As pessoas mundanas estão de tal modo acostumadas a que as procurem que quem lhes foge parece-lhes uma fênix e domina-lhes por inteiro o pensamento.

He made what apology he could and hurried home, glad that the satisfaction of his curiosity had preserved their love intact, and that, having feigned for so long a sort of indifference towards Odette, he had not now, by his jealousy, given her the proof that he loved her too much, which, between a pair of lovers, for ever dispenses the recipient from the obligation to love enough. He

At last, in Albertine walking with the lady in gray down the little street that led to the bath-house, I saw before my eyes a fragment of that past which seemed to me no less mysterious and terrifying than I had feared when I imagined it enclosed within Albertine's eyes and within her memories.