Quotes About Obsession

I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

She looked pretty lively for a girl obsessed with death.

One answer turned up in the violent video games the two were obsessed with playing. Graphic effects realistic enough to blur the line between fantasy and reality allow these kill-for-thrill games to be used to break down a person's aversion to killing. At the time of the massacre, Doom, the game favored by one of the mass murderers, was being adapted by the Marine Corps for its own training purposes.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Inside every man is a teenage boy, and we're -all- crazy in love with Shulky.

Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else.

I think it's a very confused culture. On the one hand, no one is better than anyone else; no one is prettier. On the other hand, everyone is completely obsessed by their looks and by how they strike the world. On the one hand, we're all equal; on the other hand, everyone's a superstar. It's all very irrational, like all ideology.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

When a man conclusively exalts one woman, and one woman only, "above all others," you can be pretty sure you are dealing with a misogynist. It frees him up for thinking the rest are shit.

There was something she found intensely attractive about a man with a thirst for knowledge. Marc's obsessive love of books had been--she realized now--a huge part of his appeal....

However hard as I try, it keeps growing. My bibliomania is pretty acute.

Done to death by books? There were worse ways to go, even if you weren't a bibliophile.

If you are painter it's your whole existence. It's not an activity

We're all addicted to something that takes away the pain.

It has led us to be obsessed by data rather than by the significance of knowledge and to be determined to prove things, rather than to experience and risk experiencing things as part of an adventure of faith, coupled with uncertainty.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else.

The three primary motivators for murder are money, sex, and revenge.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

I've watched so many mystery stories on T.V, when I turn off the set I wipe my finger-prints off the dial.

I chased a woman for almost two years only to discover her tastes were exactly like mine - we were both crazy about girls.