551 Quotes About Obsession

How did one not obsess over something wonderful? How did one like something a reasonable amount?

Giving up the obsession of sign-values and the subservient fascination of the social pyramid, allows us to set priorities in life, find out the core of our true self and appreciate being “in” the moment. ("Keeping up with the Joneses" )

The outside world holds no interest for me without you." -Edward

That’s the thing about success and happiness. Every time I fall in love I become absolutely, pathologically obsessed. The moment that you have what you want, and you’re not totally ready for it, you become obsessed with the idea that you don’t deserve it.

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.

...an obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more.

I wish there was a word more than ‘love’ itself to convey what I feel for you.

But the most important thing I know is that I want the possibility of you more than the reality of [her].

He really would have done all that for her, you see, and done it believing he'd burn in hell forever for doing it. He hadn't done it, and wouldn't had made her his anyway, but you see why he'd have figured it did. Or maybe I saw it anyway, at the time. He was a maniac and a monster, but people don't love like that anymore. Or maybe it's only the maniacs and monsters who do. I don't know.