52 quotes found
“You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life”
“I don't believe outstandingly beautiful and charismatic women create obsession in what would otherwise be normal men, but rather they attract the weirdos and the stalkers; flames in the darkness th...”
“Nobody's bought this land. And no one's going to want it either. It's dying land, lonely land.""Like me, then," I said."Yes, like you." You chewed the corner of your lip. "You both need saving.”
“And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.”
“Obession makes everything possible”
“It's all you think about, all you talk about, and all you want us to talk about. What in the world would we call something like that? Oh, yeah! An obsession!”
“I began to understand that the most worthwhile obsession is an obsession that is actually independent of the object of fixation. The object is only borrowed as a pretext, a means, an environment, t...”
“When others' obsessions are not ours, we are sad for them, and we talk of how empty their lives will be if they don't achieve their empty goal: the gymnastics prize, the firm partnership. But there...”
“It was as if I were an oyster and somebody forced a grain of sand into my shell -- a grain of sand that I didn't know was there and didn't particularly welcome. Then a pearl started forming around ...”
“An obsession is where something will not leave your mind”
“It is in his obsessions that mankind most closely resembles his machines.”
“I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.”
“The pleasure I found in reading books was disconcerting...I felt anxious about every new piece of information. I would latch onto one particular detail and start look for references and other versi...”
“One night, we somehow ended up discussing Wile E. Coyote as a paradigm for obsession. She argued that Wile E., with all the resources he wasted on gadgets, could have been living high on the hog.He...”
“Numbers are the only things you can trust in this life, Kerstin; they will keep you sane.Summer Lies Bleeding”
“Obsession is hard work and can only be performed at full speed for short periods of time.”
“The one thing I do know is that Miki is obsessed with me, maybe in his own fucked up way he loves me. He wont let me go and in the end that will kill him- Shi”
“Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEINGHAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even peopleBEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people”
“Reality isnt the most pleasant of atmospheres, Lieutenant. But we like to think were engineered for it. Its a pretty fine piece of engineering, the kind an engineer can respect. Drag in an obsessio...”
“It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world.”
