551 Quotes About Obsession

Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you’re getting old.

How do you know it's love and not obsession?

In this connection I must mention too a not altogether rational idea which I had nourished more or less vaguely for a long time: the notion that before I could achieve greatness as a writer I would have to pass through some ordeal. For this ordeal I had waited in vain. Even total war (I was never in uniform) failed to ruffle my life. I seemed doomed to quietness.

Let go into His arms until you find yourself obsessed on things divine

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

If I blink she'll disappear," he told her. She looked at him and said,"Maybe that is the best thing for you.

Stop obsessing about where you invest your money. Focus instead, on where you invest your time.

I dare say," Densher granted, "we were both thinking of her.""You were neither of you thinking of any one else.

It may be the character of his mind, to be always in singular need of occupation. That may be, in part, natural to it; in part, the result of affliction. The less it was occupied with healthy things, the more it would be in danger of turning in the unhealthy direction. He may have observed himself, and made the discovery.