Obsession Quotes
336 quotes
"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."
"Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.And without feet I can make my way to you,without a mouth I can swear your name.Break off my arms, I'll take hold of youwith my heart as with a hand.Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat.And if you consume my brain with fire,I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood."
"He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other."
"Here's a haiku/palindrome I wrote called, "Obsession."Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob,Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob,Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob"
"I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference"
"I will be with her again, or I will die. There aren’t any other options"
"I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they would do, even for someone they love. I have none. No God, no moral code, no faith in anything. Except you. You're my religion. I would do anything you asked. I would fight, steal, kill for you."-Kev to Win"
"To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need to have a character you're completely and utterly obsessed with. Without obsession, to the point of a maddening addiction,there's no point to continue."
"At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel."
"All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful."
"I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it."
"You spend months barely acknowledging someone's existence and then BOOM, you're emotionally addicted to her. Science would probably blame it on chemicals, genetics or something equally logical, but it didn't feel like anything logical"
"Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach."
"Stop obsessing about where you invest your money. Focus instead, on where you invest your time."
"Doing something once can be addicting. Doing it twice is admitting it."
"An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate."
"I think you can love a person too much.You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else."
"It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power."
"A bird cannot love freely when caged."
"Believing in God is great, getting obsessed with it is the problem"
"It looks like you're mocking me as if I am a girl who still believes in Santa Claus." Emily says."
"When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, “What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one’s future happiness lies in the answer."
"Man's greatest wisdom is to choose his obsession well."
"We have formed a sick little friendship over the past year"
"Sometimes there’s no cure for the crazy.” Dale sighed, stroking my hair. “I think we all just have to keep loving through it. Maybe that’s the cure."
"Did I love her? No. I obsessed over her completely. And thank heavens I was obsessed. Obsession, infatuation, is something short-lived. A sweet fever dream that leaves you exhausted from the high. Love is perpetual. Love is an entire world compared to that other form of mania people mistake love for. If love is loving the reality of a person, obsession is idealising the fantasy of another. Did I love her? No. Never. But I was utterly obsessed."
F.K. Preston, The Artist, The Audience and a Man Called Nothing
"Love is not an obsession or a delusion. Love exists in longing and appreciation."
"Don’t let your problems become your obsession."
"There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists."
"I wait on my fix:I am a poetry junkie."
"One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing intoa habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession.Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic,physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating."
"I am obsessed with reading and writing."
"Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope."
"In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forerunner of our modern technology. We suppose that this confidence in magic is derived from the over-estimation of the individual’s own intellectual operations, from the belief in the ‘omnipotence of thoughts’, which, incidentally, we come across again in our obsessional neurotics."
"We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely necessary to reveal everything [in Confession] to a priest who is a witness to our repentance.Repentance is the renewal of life. This means we must free ourselves from all our negative traits and turn toward absolute good. No sin is unforgivable except the sin of unrepentance."
"When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?"
"Do not allow yourself to be obsessed on failures"
"You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can't be both."
"The past was "built", the present is "assembled" & the future - "programmed"!"
"It is only by seeing beauty in everything that we can see it in any one single thing, day after day. Don't run into the arms of obsession, for that quickly fades. Long lasting love comes from an open, loving heart."
"Power is brilliant Beauty is madnessObsession is addictionPerfection is suicidal, I was born beyond the limits of an ordinary being. So honey make use of it I exist therefore to celebrate or to die."
"No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work."
"Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook)"
"Life is obsession and so is reading :D"
"Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody."
"There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live."
"Obsession is the evil genie who turns pleasure into pain."
"It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence."
"It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread."
"This wasn't the last of it. Now that Finia was carrying his baby, they would be together forever, whether she liked it or not."
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