Obsession Quotes

“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...”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another
apple
to slice into pieces.
Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it's noon,
that means
we're inconsolable.
Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we'll never get used to it.”
― Richard Siken

“Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING
HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people
BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people”
― Erich Fromm

“Luc blinked innocently. That little fuck. "I gave you a piece of opal and a Luxen to nom-nom on.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsession

“Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What I mean to say is, without her words, I'd be exponentially more messed up than I am already.”
― Arlaina Tibensky, And Then Things Fall Apart

“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”
― Garcilaso de la Vega

“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.”
― Roberto Hogue, Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed

“He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes.”
― Émile Zola, La Faute de l'abbé Mouret

“Reality isn’t the most pleasant of atmospheres, Lieutenant. But we like to think we’re engineered for it. It’s a pretty fine piece of engineering, the kind an engineer can respect. Drag in an obsession and reality can’t tolerate it. Something has to give; if reality goes, your fine piece of engineering is left with nothing to operate on. Nothing it was designed to operate on. So it operates badly. So kick the obsession out; start functioning the way you were designed to function.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“We are the wilderness within
Screaming out for true expression.
Even when we’re sleeping,
There’s no escape from this obsession.”
― Jay Woodman

“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.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Laura, this isn't love. Love lets you go on a trip without following you. Love can live without you for a week, knowing you'll come back.'

'No, it can't.' The afternoon shadows grew long and cold. In spite of the chill, a heat rose up inside her and flooded her face. 'That's how you know it's true love. When he can't live without you.'

Karen shook her head. 'That's how you know it's obsession. Or something else.”
― Natalie Standiford, The Boy on the Bridge

“Much better now. And Sunny—there's no such thing as 'too much' when it comes to us. Too much mutual interest, or awareness, or desire, or too much damn love—there's no such thing."
"I love you beyond obsession," I murmur, terrified because it is too much.
"I love you to insanity," he replies, utterly solemn. "That's who I am, and that is who we are. I don't have any qualms about admitting it, and I don't have any regrets. Do you?”
― Olivia Lynde, Summer's Desire

“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.”
― Nikki Sex, Amy's Gangbang Love Story

“I am obsessed with not being obsessed with acquiring material things.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Obsession; when thoughts are held captive and no longer your own.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“I feel something familiar about this place. This house…” I dragged out a hand and gestured towards it with my thumb. “I dream about it. I’ve been dreaming about it for years. Being in it.” I had her attention. “With you.”
― Sofia Grey, Obsession

“Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“Two words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I’ll play anything for you till you ask me to stop, till it’s time for lunch, till the skin on my fingers wears off layer after layer, because I like doing things for you, will do anything for you, just say the word...”
― André Aciman

“Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you’re getting old.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“The trouble with entering the upper echelon is you have to work harder to stay there.”
― John Jay Osborn Jr., The Paper Chase

“[...] passion is by no means the fuller life which it seems to be in the dreams of adolescence, but is on the contrary a kind of naked and denuding intensity, verily, a bitter destitution, the impoverishment of a mind being emptied of all diversity, an obsession of the imagination by a single image.”
― Denis De Rougemont, Love in the Western World

“A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.”
― Alan Ryan, On Politics: A History of Political Thought From Herodotus to the Present

“He knew for certain that she belonged forever in his arms, just as he knew she didn’t realize it yet.”
― Michelle M. Pillow, Portrait of His Obsession

“You’re my wife, Suki. That gives me every right.”
― Sofia Grey, Obsession

“Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye, he's chasing ME now; not I, HIM--that's bad”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Ingo was a fever, and so far she hadn't found the antidote.”
― Margaret Way, Black Ingo

“You and I, Mia. We have needs that must be attended. I will look after yours, and you will look after mine.” He sighs, and his fingers move to his suit jacket and deftly undoes the buttons, letting it fall open to reveal a smart black shirt and tie underneath. “I’ve waited for this moment for so long.”
― Claire C Riley

“With the help of fanzines and close attention to the text of the game you can actually learn to speak Tsolyanu while wondering why the school still makes you learn French–it's not like you're going to use it.”
― Mark Barrowcliffe, The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons And Growing Up Strange

“Obsessed with Christine to the end, his last statement as he left his cell was, 'to kill is the final possession'. But Muldowney was wrong. He had never possessed Christine; the resistance burning within her was too great.”
― Clare Mulley, The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville