Quotes about Obsession

Because I couldn't bear the thought of her so much as touching another man, I feared it all the time, and I saw intimacy in the most casual movement of her hand.

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me.

Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

He loves power. A terrible love.

He saw her before he saw anything else in the room.

He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.

He stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and,far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguishing nothing except a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock.

I broke a date for him. To-day I feel I'd break anything for him, including the ten commandments and my neck.

He had shown it so often that I think it was more real to him now than the house itself.