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Quotes about Obsession

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
- George Eliot
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
- Albert Camus
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
- Joseph Addison
Let Rufus weep, rejoice, stand, sit, or walk, Still he can nothing but of Nævia talk: Let him eat, drink, ask Questions, or dispute, Still he must speak of Nævia, or be mute. He writ to his Father, ending with this Line, I am, my Lovely Nævia, ever thine.
- Joseph Addison
The sorts of movies my late father had been nuts about.
- Ernest Cline
obsessive adherence to routine and preoccupation with a few obscure areas of interest led many psychologists to conclude that Halliday had suffered from Asperger's syndrome, or from some other form of high-functioning autism.) Despite
- Ernest Cline
Ray seemed to subsist primarily on a diet of high-fructose junk food and old videogames.
- Ernest Cline
These days, most gunters referred to them as "the Sux0rz." (Because they sucked.)
- Ernest Cline
I've got re-addicted to normal people, which is the loveliest thing to write about.
- Ricky Gervais
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
- Ernest Hemingway
Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.
- Mark Twain
What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.
- Anais Nin