Obsession Quotes

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Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession… — J. G. Ballard
I desire the things that will destroy me in the end. — Sylvia Plath
Try not to compare your children, even if you think you are skillful at it. You may say most positively that "Susan is pretty and… — Jeffrey R. Holland
People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger… — Deb Caletti
I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by… — Neal Shusterman
Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession. — Philip Larkin
She winced, knowing what was to come, "Calpurnia." She closed her eyes again, embarrassed by the extravagant name - a name with which no one… — Sarah MacLean
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf
How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions. — D. H. Lawrence
Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term, meaning… — Nikki Gemmell
We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our… — Gayle Forman
The point is, I canâ€™t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being… — Kathryn Stockett
Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of… — Lady Gaga
Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldnâ€™t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didnâ€™t know, but she did know that before this… — Nalini Singh
Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn sick, crazy and… — Elizabeth Gilbert
As her eyes scanned his face, he feared that she saw everything, right down t the core of him. Where his obsession with her was… — J R Ward
One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions:… — Eugene Ionesco
But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so… — Sarah Vowell
Life can be cruel. ItÂ´s been my struggle, my personal battle, my obsession to make people see that different isnÂ´t always bad. — Nikki Sixx

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