Quotes About Obsession

I'm clutching my favorite record, More of the Monkees. I listened to that album incessantly, thinking that Davy Jones might "forget that girl" and find the kindergarten siren of his dreams. I look like a five-year-old mod with dark circles under her eyes.

I took to the...Library as to a lover...

philately is far and away the area of my life where I spend the most time and effort making genuinely inconsequential decisions.

Everybody has one thing that gets to him. Women or liquor or gambling or something. The trouble is when you've got more than one vice.

My whole life is reading tabloid magazines. It's really sad, because that's what my show is all about — what is going on with celebrities. So I have to know everything.

Love is like a magic trickYou know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in lineAnd pay to see it again and again.

Funny thing about the monster.The worse he treats you, the more you love him.

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.

You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.

Its the fate of all creators: They fall in love with their creations.

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

Im a massive science fiction and fantasy geek.

Ever since I could remember, She was all that mattered.

From what I can see of humans, you often destroy wonderful things in the pursuit of something that your delusions make you think is more wonderful.

I wouldn't call myself successful, just obsessively exhausted. The music makes me smile, the movies make me feel humbled, and the comedy saves my life every day.

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.

I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted.

And so it was that the two of us, out of a shared and confused hatred, performed an act that looked like love, but while our bodies sought each other and came together we were both thinking and speaking of him all the time, of nothing but him.

Grazie a lui mi ero avvicinato per la prima volta al grande mistero, ovvero al fatto che, se mai nella nostra esistenza riusciamo ad attingere qualcosa di speciale, qualcosa di più elevato, ciò accade solo al prezzo di una particolare concentrazione interiore, di una paranoia sublime e, nella sua sacralità, affine alla follia.

No hay cosa más insoportable que pasar toda una vida obsesionada por un solo punto, por un solo día de existencia

El deseo destruye su objeto, destruyéndose a sí mismo en el proceso;

Forms of modern life may differ in quite a few respects – but what unites them all is precisely their fragility, temporariness, vulnerability and inclination to constant change. To 'be modern' means to modernize – compulsively, obsessively; not so much just 'to be', let alone to keep its identity intact, but forever 'becoming', avoiding completion, staying underdefined.