Michael Caine Quotes

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.

I'm always after boys who don't want me, I'll tell you that much!

Every woman has had the guy she's broken up with park across the street and stare at her door. Every guy has had someone call at two in the morning and hang up. Or you've been the person who has done those things.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.

If you got more than one letter from somebody who said they hated you, it meant they kept watching.

I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.

In middle school, I was boy crazy and it was the worst! I would always lose, too. I was more into the competition than the boy by the end of it! I just wanted to win!

When you can't have someone but you're not willing to accept that, you try harder and become more extreme about it. Either you win the person back or you drive him away.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.

I think most people can relate to the feeling of love spilling over into obsession.

Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb it, then I'm done with it.

During teenager times, the feelings of longing is perhaps at its most strong and profound because everything feels multiplied by ten.

I never have crushes, apart from my husband Michael, I guess, because I was obsessed with him, and I didn't speak to him for nearly a year. I kept going into the restaurant where he worked to look at him.

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.

Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.

Never love for me, only obsession.

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

Yeah. Rose." Jill sighed and stared vacantly ahead. "She's all he sees when he closes his eyes. Flashing dark eyes and a body full of fire and energy. No matter how much he tries to forget her, no matter how much he drinks . . . she's always there. He can't escape her.

Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.

To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.

The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)