Veronica Roth Quotes

When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else, very hard to see the larger picture of options that is your life, very hard to consider what else you might need or want or fear were you not so intently focused on one crushing passion. I sat in my room every night, with rare exceptions, for three and a half years.

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

My life sucks when I’m only half-aware of it. If I quit drinking and saw what it’s really like, I’d probably jump off a bridge.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

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

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional... Maybe that's a strong word, but how obsessive I am.

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

When I am not playing, I suffer.

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.

Emotionally damaged men all too often rip apart their own lives, and those of their partners and children. I see both physical fitness and emotional strength as virtues, but they are acquired by entirely different means.

All of these guys who went through rehab have done so much therapy and so much work on themselves that they're totally open to talking about anything because they've done a lot of healing. You have to respect that.

It's so important to embrace what you have because if you don't, that can be the root of very self-destructive habits, which I think people waste a lot of energy on.

You're an addiction...my obsession.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

It's extraordinary these obsessions. You conquer one but then you move onto another.

There are certain parts of a classic nerd's brain that can destroy that person - obsessing about things to the detriment of everything else in your life. But those are the same tools that you can use to turn everything around.

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

Everyone has a self-destructive nature in them. It's whether you feed it or not. You don't have to be a pop star to feel connected to destruction or self-destruction. But self-destruction is self-obsession, and self-obsession is not really possible if you're engaged in raising children. And if you have a spiritual life, you're constantly being asked to see yourself as one small fragment in the bigger picture.

You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.