Quotes About Obsession

Porque eres mía, porque no eres mía, porque te miro y muero y peor que muero si no te miro, si no te miro.

Like love was a habit you couldn't break.

since she and Marcus and her mother left, she's been close to obsessed with wanting

Mi única locura fue esperar tantos años. Pero no me arrepiento. Hice lo que tenía que hacer. Lo maté así porque yo quería que sufra, que tenga una muerte fea. Quería vengarme por todo lo que me hizo. Lo peor es que yo me conozco: si no lo mataba, me iba a quedar con él, porque yo lo quería, me parece.

I can say that all this focus on appearance while I was on Weight Watchers kept me really busy—I filled my life with healthy busywork.

Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you.

I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.

an obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more.

A book? All this for a book?

Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

But I am bored by Casanovas, inveterate travelers, nature lovers, and the drug-obsessed, as they speak from the narrowness of their exhaustive experience of one thing.

But to become preoccupied with Satan and his kingdom is equally dangerous.

Rail attendants dismiss excited train hobbyists as "foamers" (foaming at the mouth as they board their choo-choos).

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness.

When the fanatic is confronted with facts, statistics, history, experience, ethics, faith, or what have you, it is of no consequence. He has found his calling and he will not be dissuaded from it. Again, "the cause" is greater than all things.

we have come to invest so much attention on something so shallow.

living con smania,

mind long after he couldn't see them anymore. His urge was to go after the

The irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.

Golf is my boyfriend right now.

I think people who are fanatical about anything are funny.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

The Yankees are only interested in one thing, and I have no idea what that is.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.