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“Because I want to have sex with him--and because that's sinful--I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.”

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“Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people”

Possession Obsession

Author:Erich Fromm

“He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes.”

Obsession Religious Faith

Book:La Faute de l'abbé Mouret

Source: La Faute de l'abbé Mouret

“Reality isn’t the most pleasant of atmospheres, Lieutenant. But we like to think we’re engineered for it. It’s a pretty fine piece of engineering, the kind an engineer can respect. Drag in an obsession and reality can’t tolerate it. Something has to give; if reality goes, your fine piece of engineering is left with nothing to operate on. Nothing it was designed to operate on. So it operates badly. So kick the obsession out; start functioning the way you were designed to function.”

Reality Obsession

Book:More Than Human

Source: More Than Human

“What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural loving and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare?”

Obsession Obsessed Control

Book:Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“This obsession is a curious thing. Sometimes wonder about the merits of devoting so much of myself to a singular climbing objective. Much of the time it beats me down, leaves me hanging my head in despair. But then there are the moments that bring me to life. When excitement wells up inside my chest in a way that doesn’t happen in every day life. Today my fingertips were cracked and bleeding. I made no progress despite great conditions. Now I am on the ground and can hardly contain my excitement to get back on the wall. It’s a crazy rollercoaster and I owe my family and partners a great deal for encouraging me through it all.”

Encouragement Perseverance Obsession Climbing Rock Climbing

Author:Tommy Caldwell

“We are the wilderness within Screaming out for true expression. Even when we’re sleeping, There’s no escape from this obsession.”

Expression Obsession Wilderness Escape Within

Author:Jay Woodman

“The teeth!—the teeth!—they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips writhing about them, as in the very moment of their first terrible development.”

Obsession Grotesque

Book:Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Source: Tales of Mystery and Imagination

“Much better now. And Sunny—there's no such thing as 'too much' when it comes to us. Too much mutual interest, or awareness, or desire, or too much damn love—there's no such thing." "I love you beyond obsession," I murmur, terrified because it is too much. "I love you to insanity," he replies, utterly solemn. "That's who I am, and that is who we are. I don't have any qualms about admitting it, and I don't have any regrets. Do you?”

Love Too Much Obsession

Book:Summer's Desire

Source: Summer's Desire

“Obsession; when thoughts are held captive and no longer your own.”

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“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 outside-in, alone, and asked, 'Why?”

Prayer Stage Theater Obsession Silent God

Book:The Brandywine Prophet

Source: The Brandywine Prophet