Quotes About Obsession

Porphyria's lover was mad, of course, but what lover is completely sane?

The only book Knight didn't steal was the one he most often saw. 'I had no need for a Bible,' he said.

Bellatrix Lestrange

Golf balls are attracted to water as unerringly as the eye of a middle-aged man to a female bosom.

Most stories are not about people but about life, an addiction like the rest of them that destroys you even as you love it, but you love it anyway and can never get enough.

It's easier to cool down a fanatic than to warm up a corpse.

This morning I awoke clutching your name with such reckless devotion that it turned to dust.

DID YOU BECOME ADDICTED BECAUSE YOU FELT PAIN?' 'I wish I could say that, Doctor, but no,' says Burroughs. 'I became addicted because I wanted more.

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

People were always reaching for what they didn't have—fame or wealth, youth or love, some final victory or vengeance. They chased after the prizes that would sum up their lives, seeking to complete themselves. It was so easy to get caught up in the chase.

It had obsessed his father and caused his death. It had briefly obsessed Pétur before he had tried to put it behind him. It had obsessed Agnar and the foreign Lord of the Rings fans, and it had obsessed Hákon. No possessed Hákon. Only his grandfather, Högni, had had the

If you have a passion for food then it's not only your life and your avocation but it's also your vocation and maybe that's the lunacy.

on death pools] This attitude is an unwholesome mix of frivolity and obsession—toying with death even while fixating upon it.

Right there, the Jew temple of Jerusalem beneath us, I swore to myself that I would finally enter him - the boy prophet, the ultimate challenge, my obsession. I would enter him the way I entered the Emperor's gates after a campaign: invincible, majestic. But hailed by his groans rather than by the cries of banner-waving masses.

I've seen this happen before. Elder flesh works wonders on their systems, making them huge. And once they get a taste for Elder flesh, nothing else will satisfy them. It's probably after me now." Then, when the creature ignored him, he added, "Or not . . .

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Infatuation isn't a subtle emotion

You can collect as many rings as you like, Telamon, but you'll never have enough. I think you'll be afraid for the rest of your life! - Pirra

Wij noemen hen Kraaien. Omdat ze zo hebberig zijn en zich voeden met de dood.

Mensen offeren iets omdat ze iets willen. De Kraaien moet heel graag iets hebben gewild als ze er een hele vallei voor hebben laten afbranden.

And another had a very unhealthy love of clown porn. But I've tried to block that out.

Her eyes winded. "I'm becoming addicted to you?." He raised an eyebrow. "You say it like it's a bad thing.

it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.

It was a huge obsession taking over my life, every injustice leading logically to a related and worse injustice until I was standing in the center of a pulsating ring of pain and torture and oppression and the only real solution was to just kill yourself. Just get off the fucking fucked-up planet.