Obsession Quotes

“We have formed a sick little friendship over the past year”
― Dee Remy, There Once Was A Boy

“Nobody's bought this land. And no one's going to want it either. It's dying land, lonely land."
"Like me, then," I said.
"Yes, like you." You chewed the corner of your lip. "You both need saving.”
― Lucy Christopher

“The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went into finding young women who slept with their bedroom window open got channeled into some other interest, with merciless and painstaking efficiency...”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation

“Obession makes everything possible”
― Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)

“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)”
― Steven Heighton

“Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.”
― Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King : The Quest for a Lost City

“I thought you wanted to catch a camel," you tried again.
"No."
"I want to."
"Well, you go then."
You laughed. "I want your beautiful face where I can see it”
― Lucy Christopher

“He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, thought not necessarily rare, traits, all of which he accepted as absurd clues in a clever puzzle.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“I love you. Everything and anything I do is for you. Only you.”
― E.L Beth, Guilty Love

“I am the scourge of God”
― Peter Ackroyd, The Trial of Elizabeth Cree

“But it is easy to call a man in love a mad man.”
― Brendan Connell, Metrophilias

“You've invaded my mind and I can't get you out of it," he accused with discernible disdain. She avoided looking at him and said, "Then you should forget." "Forget?" he thundered,"EVERYTHING reminds me of you!" She turned to confront him, slowing lifting her eyes to meet the disgust in his. "That's not my doing," she countered, "That's your doing and you are the only one who can control it.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“You have haunted me in my dreams,
Followed me in my memory,
And enamoured me…
…Nirvana…
Your name echoes in the most silent parts of my mind,
Brought to life by the memory of your touch, And the gentle sway of our bodies to the jazz music
You have become my obsession,
Of which I will never tire.

Salvatore”
― ANSA Reads, GODLY OBSESSION: How badly does she want her freedom?

“Life is obsession and so is reading :D”
― Rukamanee Maharjan

“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.”
― Marcel Proust , Swann’s Way

“The trouble is, this is trouble that you welcome. You realize there is a reason clichés exist, and you would happily have your breath taken away, three seconds at a time, maybe more, by this woman.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“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.”
― Susan Vreeland, Girl in Hyacinth Blue

“جمع الكتب هو استحواذ، ومرض، وإدمان، وفتنة، وقدر. هو ليس بهواية. من يقوم بذلك فلأنه عليه القيام به. ومن لا يقوم بذلك، فيعتقد أنه شبيه بجمع الطوابع”
― Jeanette Winterson

“I wrote this song for you — to chase you, till devouring You.”
― Felicia IANCU, SONG FOR YOU / CÂNTEC PENTRU TINE (Bilingual English–Romanian Edition / Ediție bilingvă engleză–română / 2025): Poems of Love, Madness & Resurrection / ... nebunie și renaștere

“Now, in his teenage years, he was rebellious and
playful. As if he was living through his last fucking days.
He was the kind of boy who found mischief in
every corner of the realm. He thrived on trouble and
wore it like a badge of honor.
The weight of responsibility felt suffocating to
him these days.”
― Hope Redgrave, Obsession

“To be a fan of The Vampire Diaries isn't just to like it. It isn't just to love it. It's to obsess over it. It's the kind of fandom that still, more than fifteen years after the series first premiered, attends conventions all over the globe just to get a glimpse of their favorite star or hear them talk about Mystic Falls. It's a fandom that certainly launched with the book series but became something entirely new when the show really took off.”
― Samantha Highfill, I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries

“When ambition becomes obsession, there’s no line left between genius and madness.”
― Nevine Essam, Harland’s Plan: Psychological Thriller

“The past never really returns… it just finds a way to sit across from you.”
― Nevine Essam, Harland’s Plan: Psychological Thriller

“Science can make a body… but it will never make a soul.”
― Nevine Essam, Unreturning: Psychological / Emotional Thriller

“Some stories don't haunt because they're written; they haunt until you surrender.
O.C. Sterling, Playing Dead (The Revenant Series)”
― O.C. Sterling

“Tess, Tess, I was on the way to salvation till I saw you again!" he said, feverishly shaking her, as if she were a child. "And why then have you tempted me? I was firm as a man could be till I saw those eyes and that mouth again—surely there never was such a maddening mouth since Eve's!" His voice sank, and a hot archness shot from his own black eyes. "You temptress, Tess; you dear damned witch of Babylon—I could not resist you as soon as I met you again!”
― Thomas Hardy

“She is more than an obsession now. She is a religion. And I am her most fervent, most damned disciple. I would sacrifice everything I am, everything I have, for a single drop of her grace.”
― Ys Goldt, The Strange Mercy of Listening

“When you dare to obsess over the impossible, you ignite the power to remake possibility itself.”
― F.C. Quiles, Dismantled: A Theory of Broken Mindsets—A Blueprint of Infinite Futures

“You and I are forever, Saylor. Till death and after. I promise you, I won’t have it any other way.”
― AJ Merlin, Delicious: Pleasure and Prey

“Sleep looked peaceful from outside. It never felt peaceful from inside.”
― Ellis De Keyzer, Scopophilia