Laurence Sterne Quotes

Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in every weeknight in the hope that he might get free and call me. It felt like I had a disease I didn't want to get rid of. I suppose that's a definition of obsession, yes.

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

I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelids.

Obession makes everything possible

You start living for the obsession alone ... You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you're enjoying the road or not.

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

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

Love without evidence is stalking.

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

I am cruel and I am selfish, but this need I have inside me, this need for you and no other, is stronger than anything else I've ever encountered. I doubt two years of lockup would dull it in the slightest.

What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.

I definitely have a Google obsession of Juliette Binoche. I'm obsessed. I'll read everything she's ever said. I can tell you anything you want to know about Juliette Binoche, or Jack White. Those are my two creepy obsessions.

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.

Obsession is such a naughty word - it's a very intense word. I'm obsessed with music, always have been. I can't lie. And I'm obviously obsessed with my child, my child's life and the little things that he does.

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

The form is always the measure of the obsession.

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.

To be the object of somebody's obsession is a really awful feeling when you can't return it.

Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.

Once I'm obsessed with somebody, I'm terrified of them instantly. I'm not scared of them - I'm scared of me and how I will react. Like, for instance, one time someone was introducing me to Bill Maher, and I saw Meryl Streep walk into the room, and I literally put my hand right in Bill Maher's face and said, "Not now, Bill!", and I just stared at Meryl Streep... I just creepily stared at her.

When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual

Like a stalker. An obsessed stalker. An obsessed, vampire stalker

There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.

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.

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.