Obsession Quotes

Elie Wiesel

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Rick Riordan

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

Margaret Atwood

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would
I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

J.K. Rowling

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

William Shakespeare

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never
They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Charlotte Brontë

I have little left in myself - I must have you. The world may laugh - may call me absurd, selfish - but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.

Emily Brontë

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

Benjamin J. Carey

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

Jennifer Salaiz

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.

Umberto Eco

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.

Niyi Osundare

One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into
a 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.

Simona Panova

Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.

Simona Panova

And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself.
But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles...

Jeanette Winterson

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.

Jeanette Winterson

Passion out of passion's obstacles.. Jeanette Winterson
Passion out of passion's obstacles.

Pushpa Rana

I invented you the way I like but I have fallen for you the way you are.

Pushpa Rana

Writing is my passion, expression and an incessant obsession.

Pet Torres

Emily is grateful to this man and gradually she begins to immerse herself into the world of Tiger's obsession.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.

Jeffrey McDaniel

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

Emily Brontë

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.

J.R. Ward

The truth was...he was in love with her. Totally over-the-line, no-going-back, not-even-dead-would-he-part kind of shit.

Julie Kagawa

I will be with her again, or I will die. There aren’t any other options

Ayn Rand

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference

Jack Llawayllynn

I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can't see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for your taste, your smell, the feel of your soul touching mine.

Gwen Hayes

This isn't a crush, it's obsession.You are never not in my thoughts. Your scent carries across a room and paralyzes me with longing. I don't want to hold your hand. Part of me wants to set you on fire and hold you while the flame consumes us both, to eat your heart so I know that only I possess it entirely.

Jeanette Winterson

Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.

Jodi Picoult

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You become what you think about all day long.

E. Lockhart

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

Ram Mohan

The theory of attachment is same for humans and computers.
Unknown sender's attachment is blocked..
Known sender's attachment is accepted or ignored..
Heavy attachments are annoying..
Too heavy attachments do not reach..
No attachment is the best option!

Emme Rollins

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.

Dee Remy

We have formed a sick little friendship over the past year

Paul Elwork

Some men are like that - they get a woman in their mind, and that's that. They will destroy themselves and everyone else over her; they will let everything else fall apart.

Caroline Kepnes

And [Benji] cheats on you, Beck. A lot. Compulsively. He is in intense pursuit of a performance artist who fucks with his head the way he fucks with yours.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Those who cannot have your love, will gladly accept your hatred.

C.K. Kelly Martin

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

Jeanette Winterson

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.

Jeanette Winterson

جمع الكتب هو استحواذ، ومرض، وإدمان، وفتنة، وقدر. هو ليس بهواية. من يقوم بذلك فلأنه عليه ال

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success

Benjamin Brindise

I often stood and stared into those tunnels and thought about what happened there; how I was separated from it only by time." - The Procession

Simona Panova

Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Possession is not only when the devil plays hide and seek in your brain or poison your medula oblongata with negativity, but it is also when you are under the influence of the same specie as you!

Ryū Murakami

That's when he hit her, when he saw how scared she was. He couldn't bear it that she was frightened and asking for help. Asking for help is wrong. Because there isn't any such thing as help in this world.

Steven Heighton

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)

Rukamanee Maharjan

Life is obsession and so is reading :D

Musawir Masood

The beauty of love is that it demands to be two sided, otherwise its nothing but another obsession.

Kurt Vonnegut

Pretty, was she?"

"Pretty?" he echoed. "Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it'll be her wings and not her face that'll make my mouth fall open. I've already seen the prettiest face that ever could be.

Nenia Campbell

You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can't be both.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One-night stands were invented to free men from worrying about the size of their penis. And to free women from worrying about the size of their stretch marks.

Roberto Hogue

If you love sex, let it be known. You don’t have to walk around downtown naked or have some flyers printed up, but definitely don’t be shy about your love (or obsession) for sex.

Nikki Sex

It was an obsession, it was a compulsion. "The way to banish temptation is to give into it," the saying went. Maybe if she experienced a gangbang, it wouldn't be such a big deal, and would no longer be the focus of her sexual imagination.

Jess C. Scott

Because I want to have sex with him-and because that's sinful-I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.

Pushpa Rana

Sanity is to the mind, insanity is for the heart,
Docility is to the mind, wildness is to the heart,
Tamable is the mind, Untamable is the heart,
Freedom is to the mind, cages are for the heart.

Munia Khan

If lighthouse becomes a burning candle,
flickered upon ocean's insanity.
Your sailing heart there anchors to handle
the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.

H.G. Mewis

A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back - bruised and aching - as he continues to strive for excellence due to the all-consuming obsession and love for his art.

Claude Monet

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

Susan Vreeland

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.

Marty Rubin

Obsession is more valuable to an artist than knowledge.

Amit Kalantri

Obsession and desperation for your goal, gets you the goal.

Patrick Modiano

No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with getting a nationality...

H.P. Lovecraft

Have only this consolation-that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only
Have only this consolation-that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love of mystery and of the past was his undoing. He stumbled on things no mortal ought ever to know, and reached back through the years as no one ever should reach; and something came out of those years to engulf him.

John Connolly

A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer

Junaid E Mustafa

A hyphen can bring you from nowhere to now-here. That hyphen is will-power, in fact.

Junaid E Mustafa

Time imparts tougher skin to the weakest and toughest to the weaker.

Junaid E Mustafa

Don't let the colons end in a full stop.

Marty Rubin

Freedom, too, can be a trap if you pursue it too doggedly.

Sarah McLachlan

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...

Philip Hensher

It happened to some people, that obsession with throwing their clothes off at an age when it would be best to keep them on.

Gary Shteyngart

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

Tina Louise Brotz

Power is never measured by what you can give but by what you can actually take!

Marty Rubin

All the great novels are about obsession and people who are obsessed.

K. Webster

Lane, I will become attached to you. It happens with everyone. Something about my personality makes me latch on to people. First, it was my friend Tina, then Liam, and now you. I’m sorry, but I know it will happen. It already is happening. Now that we’ve had sex, I don’t want you out of my sight.

George Eliot

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

Anne Lamott

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

Munia Khan

Mind hates to seep in delusion soaking faintly discolored obsession.

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