David Sheff Quotes

Romantic love is an addiction.

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

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.

Obsessed people are not humorless at all.

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

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.

Nothing like falling in love with a dead actress to prove your sanity.

You're an addiction...my obsession.

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.

You forget: I have an addictive personality. I'm addicted to you. Somehow I think you could do all sorts of bad things to me, and I'd still come back to you. Just keep things honest, okay? Tell me what you're feeling. If you're feeling something for Dimitri that's confusing you, tell me. We'll work it out.

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

Obsession can be a great thing or it can also destroy lives.

Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

I made a film called 'Bad Timing' that I thought everybody would respond to. It was about obsessive love and physical obsession. I thought this must touch everyone, from university dons down.

There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

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

I tell people my only successful long-term relationship was with Jim Packard. He was my rock. I didn't realize how codependent I was.