Obsession proverbs

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◆ Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.

- Jeanette Winterson99

◆ The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

- Rick Riordan99

◆ I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

- Margaret Atwood99

◆ I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.

- Sylvia Plath99

◆ Passion is a positive obsession. Obsession is a negative passion.

- Paul Carvel98

◆ To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typography of a book — to become absorbed for the better part of a summer's day in a quaint shadow falling aslant upon the tapestry, or upon the floor — to lose myself for an entire night in watching the steady flame of a lamp, or the embers of a fire — to dream away whole days over the perfume of a flower — to repeat monotonously some common word, until the sound, by dint of frequent repetition, ceased to convey any idea whatever to the mind — to lose all sense of motion or physical existence in a state of absolute bodily quiescence long and obstinately persevered in — Such were a few of the most common and least pernicious vagaries induced by a condition of the mental faculties, not, indeed, altogether unparalleled, but certainly bidding defiance to any thing like analysis or explanation.

- Edgar Allan Poe98

◆ I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

- E. Lockhart98

◆ You spend months barely acknowledging someone's existence and then BOOM, you're emotionally addicted to her. Science would probably blame it on chemicals, genetics or something equally logical, but it didn't feel like anything logical

- C.K. Kelly Martin98

◆ love keeps you up at night, fills your mind at school, and obsesses with your soul.

- Jeanie Wilding98

◆ Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

- Anne Lamott98

◆ When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?

- Shannon L. Alder98

◆ Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!

- Louisa May Alcott98

◆ You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life

- Novala Takemoto98

◆ The love object occupies the thoughts of the person diagnosed as 'in love' all the time despite the probability that very little is actually known about it. To it are ascribed all qualities considered by the obsessed as good, regardless of whether the object in question possesses those qualities in any degree. Expectations are set up which no human being could fulfill. Thus the object chosen plays a special role in relation to the go of the obsessed, who decided that he or she is the right or the only person for him. In the case of a male this notion may sanction a degree of directly aggressive behavior either in pursuing the object or driving off competition.

- Germaine Greer98

◆ i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.

- Gabriel Garcí-a Márquez98