C. S. Lewis Quotes

You're an addiction...my obsession.

When you have an addictive personality, you fixate upon things easily. Routines and behaviors, and ritual, becomes very important.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge.

You have a transportation fetish. I have a Gideon fetish. It's been weeks.

It was calling me, that button," he offered as his excuse. "I couldn't resist." -MULCH DIGGUMS ON A HIGHLY PRESS-ABLE BUTTON-

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

I am a compulsive and concise shopper.

Desire is the strongest human emotion - desire for a hat, desire for a dress; that's what drives people to buy and want things.

I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

I've got a pretty addictive personality.

I rewind the TV every two minutes. If someone does something interesting, I have to see it over and over again.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Collection is an addiction.

I'm addicted to something at all times. Like, it's always music, but maybe sometimes it's a pair of pants or something else. That's just how my personality works.

I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.

I'm not an impulse shopper. I will wait three days after I see something. Am I still thinking about it? Then I'll get it.

I'll let myself obsess over things.

In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.

I've always been one of those people - once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.

Most people have had that feeling of like, being obsessed with someone, and losing self control a bit, and that hopefully humanises addiction a bit.

I'm obsessive when I get an idea in my head.

I just need to do Pac's work. I just need to. Maybe because I'm a recovering addict, I'm obsessed like that.

Sometimes in life, when we really want something, we can approach it in a way that might actually be closing us off from achieving it.