52 quotes found
“Man's greatest wisdom is to choose his obsession well.”
“Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.And without feet I can make my way to you,without a mouth I can swear your name.Break off my arms, I'll take hold of y...”
“All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and eac...”
“One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing intoa habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession.Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic,physiologi...”
“..if you put people on a diet, they start thinking about food. Or if you make someone stop smoking, all they think about is cigarettes. It seems logical enough to me that if you tell a person he ca...”
“Life is obsession and so is reading :D”
“William looked up... through his tears... past the catwalk and lights... past the sky... through the dark and clouds and stars and into the void where he once knew God existed, then turned himself ...”
“Shes a sickness in my head.Then get well.What you feel is self-made and attended to over time. You want to let go but are unwilling to let go because you are getting something from it; An escape? A...”
“The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.”
“She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment.”
“I have this obsession with really cool, old books.”
“Winter, spring, and summer, passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossoms or the expanding leaves sights which before always yielded me supreme delight, so deeply was I engrossed...”
“It was gentler here, softer, its seethe the quietest of whispers, as if, in deference to a drawing room, it had quite deliberately put on its 'manners'; it kept itself out of sight, obliterated its...”
“We had, I felt, bared small pieces of our symmetrical souls to each other, fast, as if playing one of those breathless card games, and I had pretended to be as moved as I had been the first time I ...”
“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
“This connection we have isn't going away, it's only getting stronger. Because the more I spend time with her, the closer I want to be.”
“Mujer, you own my soul.”
“All right, you caught me. I'm secretly obsessed with you and spend all my free time writing about you in my journal. 'Dear Diary, today Will was an ass for the 467th day in a row. He's so dreamy”
“The outside world holds no interest for me without you." -Edward”
“All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.”
