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Quotes About Obsession

Because ever since that first day I met you, I've gone to sleep every single night thinking about you, and every morning when I wake, my first thoughts are of you.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Ever since that first day I met you, I've gone to sleep ever single night thinking about you.
~ Mary E. Pearson
I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning and watching.
~ Mary Elizabeth Winstead
It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession.
~ Mary Gaitskill
He was beginning to see her as a locked garden that he could sneak into and sit in for days, tearing the heads off the flowers.
~ Mary Gaitskill
When he held her that way, she felt so happy that it disturbed her. After he left, it would take her hours to fall asleep, and then when she woke up she would feel another onrush of agitated happiness, which was a lot like panic. She wished she could grab the happiness and mash it into a ball and hoard it and gloat over it, but she couldn't. It just ran around all over the place, disrupting everything.
~ Mary Gaitskill
She had no idea that less than two miles away, a man was Googling her on his computer, learning more about her life and wondering when to make his next move.
~ Mary Higgins Clark
His feelings were confused; he wanted to grasp till Alexander's very bones were somehow engulfed within himself, but knew this to be wicked and mad; he would kill anyone who harmed a hair of his head.
~ Mary Renault
Alexander)'Sometimes I forget all this for months on end. Sometimes I think of it day and night. Sometimes I think, unless I find out the truth of it, I shall go mad.' (Hephaistion)'That's stupid. You've got me now. Do you think I'd let you go mad?
~ Mary Renault
I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will I ever, completely lose the longing for that something, that thing that I believe will fill an emptiness inside me. I do believe that the emptiness was made greater by the things that I did to myself.
~ Marya Hornbacher
We take a certain sick pride in the fact that we know the caloric and fat content of every possible food on the planet, and have an understandable disdain for nutritionists who attempt to tell us the caloric content of anything, when we are the gods of caloric content and have delusions of nutritional omniscience, when said nutritionist will attempt to explain that the average woman needs a daily diet of 2,000 or more calories when we ourselves have been doing JUST FUCKING FINE on 500.
~ Marya Hornbacher
I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.
~ Marya Hornbacher
I threw up again that night, half-afraid that my eyeballs would explode. But it was, by far, more important that I get rid of dinner. Of course, by then, throwing up was the only way I knew how to deal with fear. That paradox would begin to run my life: to know that what you are doing is hurting you, maybe killing you, and to be afraid of that fact--but to cling to the idea that this will save you, it will, in the end, make things okay.
~ Marya Hornbacher
I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgment from my brain when I get my head set on something. Everything is done at all costs. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense, pretty much.
~ Marya Hornbacher
Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.
~ Marya Hornbacher
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
~ Marya Mannes
we are all driven by the urge to meet our needs. What if one of our most fundamental needs is to have things be just so?
~ Unknown
Call it professional interest. You see, Jessamine, love is a kind of poison; one of my favorite kinds, in fact. It infects the blood; it takes over the mind; it seizes dominion over the body. It amuses me to think of him pining for you. Aching for what he cannot have. The loneliness in his soul is festering like a wound. There is nothing I could do for him that is worse that what you have already done, my lovely. And I assure you, in his case there will be no cure.
~ Unknown
Am urcat scara de incendiu purtat de dorin?a de a ?ti totul despre aceast? siren? cereasc?. Iar acum a? sta pironit, pân? când mijesc zorii, doar s? m? uit la spectacolul buzelor ei frem?t?toare.
~ Mathias Malzieu
Love is blind, but lust has many eyes.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Once you've tasted "love" from human flesh, you're forever hooked. And mermaids have quite a voracious appetite for love.
~ Unknown
Some folks, he said, seem to want to seek out the things that destroy them. Called an achimist, a fancy word, but a true one.
~ Unknown
I read and read and read with an intensity I'd never really known before. I mean, I'd always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books.
~ Matt Haig
A SIDE EFFECT OF depression is sometimes to become obsessed with the functioning of your brain.
~ Matt Haig