Quotessence
Home / Topics / Obsession Quotes

Obsession Quotes

Browse 1562 quotes about Obsession.

Related topics

PeopleObsessedThinkingIfsWorldKnowsWritingWantWayKindCultureMenSelfTryingIdeasLittlesPassionBookArtDesireNeedsArtistMeanMindFirstsLooksWholeStillsYearsBelieveHumansFeelsHas BeensDreamFilmBodyI CanMemoriesObjectsSeemsSometimesStoriesDifferentGivingDoeFeelingsFormPersonsChildrenHardLongProblemRealSexWellsAgeCharacterEndsHateImportantIntenseKidsMinesWantedAddictionBeautifulBigsMadeMatterMightSoulStatesTermTurnsCareCertainCrazyFactsGenerationsLifeMotherMovingNamesShowsSleepSongAmericaBornDangerFallFunHeartMomentsNovelOne ThingOrderReasonShouldUseBreakmore

Obsession Quotes

“But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end-and yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it's possible to play it with a kind of joy? To try to make some meaning out of all this seems unbelievably quaint. Maybe I only see a pattern because I've been staring too long. But then again, to paraphrase Boris, maybe I see a pattern because it's there.”

JoyObsessionMeaningDoomedDoomPattern
Book:The Goldfinch
Create image

“I wrote this song for you — to chase you, till devouring You.”

LoveDesirePassionMadnessObsessionEmotional IntensityConfessional Poetry
Book:SONG FOR YOU / CÂNTEC PENTRU TINE (Bilingual English–Romanian Edition / Ediție bilingvă engleză–română / 2025): Poems of Love, Madness & Resurrection / ... nebunie și renaștere
Create image

“I don't mean that I possessed those qualities myself. I mean it in the sense that religion provides a chance at grace; not because it is real, but because it is believed to be real. You're a saint, my darling; but even a saint is lost without god of some sort or another. Equally, if you worship something ardently enough, it might as well be divine. And I was surprised to find how easy it was to create a divinity of myself.”

DesireObsession
Book:Innocents
Create image

“Cheaters only cheat when they are missing something. There is a loss going on and it is up to you to figure out what that is. Their reason might be stupid to you but to them it was more important than you realize. Because cheaters know the risks they are taking. They know cheating is not a casual thing. There is something so intense inside of them to drive them to that point. You might not like what that thing might be, but you must accept it is there and either fill that need or move on. This loss could be anything: attention, someone more attractive, control, dominance, boredom...you name it. You will never heal a relationship unless you accept that there truly is a "why" that the cheater is not willing to share with you.”

DesireObsessionCheatingCheatFlirtingAdulteryIn LoveCheaters
Book:The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Bible
Create image

“Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress bids me wear them, warm them, until evening when I'll brush her hair. At six, I place them round her cool, white throat. All day I think of her, resting in the Yellow Room, contemplating silk or taffeta, which gown tonight? She fans herself whilst I work willingly, my slow heat entering each pearl. Slack on my neck, her rope. She's beautiful. I dream about her in my attic bed; picture her dancing with tall men, puzzled by my faint, persistent scent beneath her French perfume, her milky stones. I dust her shoulders with a rabbit's foot, watch the soft blush seep through her skin like an indolent sigh. In her looking-glass my red lips part as though I want to speak. Full moon. Her carriage brings her home. I see her every movement in my head.... Undressing, taking off her jewels, her slim hand reaching for the case, slipping naked into bed, the way she always does.... And I lie here awake, knowing the pearls are cooling even now in the room where my mistress sleeps. All night I feel their absence and I burn.”

DesireLongingObsession
Author:Carol Ann Duffy
Create image

“Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.”

ThinkingPhilosophyWisdomHumorCareFunnyScienceBrainKnowledgePsychologyComedyHonestyHumilityPrideGeniusLaughterProfoundAddictionIntelligenceAppearanceTheologyObsessionArroganceExcessNot KnowingJokeRidiculeCautionObsessiveCognitionParodyFunny But TrueApologeticsOverflowOverthinkingKnow It AllGlassPretentiousnessOverdoing ItEgghead
Book:Healology
Create image

“Did I love her? No. I obsessed over her completely. And thank heavens I was obsessed. Obsession, infatuation, is something short-lived. A sweet fever dream that leaves you exhausted from the high. Love is perpetual. Love is an entire world compared to that other form of mania people mistake love for. If love is loving the reality of a person, obsession is idealising the fantasy of another. Did I love her? No. Never. But I was utterly obsessed.”

LoveLifeInspirationalWritingPhilosophyHumorInspirationMotivationalDeathPoetryHopeFriendshipImaginationFictionFamilyFantasyRelationshipObsessionStoryMagical Realism
Book:The Artist, The Audience, and a Man Called Nothing
Create image

“[Patricia Highsmith] had experienced at first hand many of Ripley's characteristics - splintered identity, insecurity, inferiority, obsession with an object of adoration, and the violence that springs from repression. Like her young anti-hero, she knew that in order to survive, it was necessary to prop oneself up with a psychological fantasy of one's own making. 'Happiness, for me, is a matter of imagination,' she wrote in her notebook while writing The Talented Mr. Ripley. 'Existence is a matter of unconscious elimination of negative and pessimistic thinking. I mean, to survive at all. And this applies to everyone. We are all suicides under the skin, and under the surface of our lives.”

WritingHappinessImaginationExistenceFantasyViolenceIdentitySurvivalNegativeSuicideSurfaceObsessionUnconsciousInsecurityPessimismAdorationRepressionInferiorityPessimisticSurviveAnti HeroSplintered Identity
Book:Patricia Highsmith, ζωή στο σκοτάδι
Create image

“I write romance stories and although I want it to be a beautiful work of art, I am afraid that I will live in the story I created in my mind. It's all in my mind I know, but sometimes, the romance becomes too ideal and realistic for me that I soon fall for the hero that was just a product of my imagination. I think that is both a fearful obstacle and a proof that somehow, you are succeeding to touch a reader's heart - even if it is yours.”

LoveWritingHeartPhilosophyDreamRomanceFearImaginationHeroRomanticObsessionConfusionLive In The MomentAuthorsObstacleFear Of UnknownLove InterestNicholaa SpencerRomance Writers Of AmericaAuthor Nicholaa Spencer
Author:Nicholaa Spencer
Create image

“I write romance stories and although I want it to be a beautiful work of art, I am afraid that I will live in the story I created in my mind. It's all in my mind I know, but sometimes, the romance becomes too ideal and realistic for me that I soon fall for the hero that was just a product of my imagination. I think that is both an fearful obstacle and a proof that somehow, you are succeeding to touch a reader's heart - even if it is yours.”

LoveWritingHeartDreamRomanceFearImaginationHeroRomanticObsessionConfusionAuthorLive In The MomentAuthorsObstacleFear Of UnknownLove InterestNicholaa SpencerRomance Writers Of AmericaAuthor Nicholaa Spencer
Author:Nicholaa Spencer
Create image

“The world doesn’t need balanced people. Every person should have an idée fixe, an obsession. Only then the world will function well. Like numerous drones doing their part in a beehive, such obsessed people could then contribute to the world. Individually, such people may appear weird, but together they will make our world a much bearable place. Balanced people do not enrich this world; not at all. They are happier, though. We all need to have a monomania. We all need an all-consuming passion.”

PassionPassionateObsessionObsessedBalanced LifeObsession QuotesMonomaniaBalanced Person
Book:The Gods Are Not Dead
Create image

“Yes, I was obsessed with sex, but which guy isn’t at seventeen? Blame our media or our conservative society; the subject of sex is treated as if it is something unnatural. By denouncing sex heavily, our society has made people wanting it even more. Media, on the other hand, presents it as if it is something magical but denied to most people. Moral policing too has done nothing good but increased the lure of sex in the minds of the young by making it a taboo. In short, a lot of hullabaloo has been created over the issue of sex, and I too fell victim to the propaganda.”

PassionSexMediaSexualityObsessionAdolescenceTeenagersSexual TensionLibidoSexuality Quotes
Book:The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
Create image

“You only have to start saying of something : 'Ah, how beautiful ! We must photograph it !' and you are already close to the view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it never existed, and therefore in order to really live you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life.”

LovePassionPhotographyObsessionCamera
Book:Difficult Loves
Create image