Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

Marie, let’s suppose that two firemen go into a forest to put out a small fire. Afterwards, when they emerge and go over to a stream, the face of one is all smeared with black,...

I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.I want.

Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What I mean to say is, without her words, I’d be exponentially more messed...

Anything that inspires addiction or obsession – substances, entertainment, beauty, secrecy – is dangerous in that it can lead to isolation, self-absorption, and disconnection, to paralyzed stasis: an immobility that gathers like a force.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

A hyphen can bring you from nowhere to now-here. That hyphen is will-power, in fact.

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

He really would have done all that for her, you see, and done it believing he’d burn in hell forever for doing it. He hadn’t done it, and wouldn’t had made her his anyway, but...

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,

I have an obsession with details and pattern.

The love object occupies the thoughts of the person diagnosed as ‘in love’ all the time despite the probability that very little is actually known about it. To it are ascribed all qualities considered by...

Here’s a haiku/palindrome I wrote called, “Obsession.”Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob,Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob,Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob

Enemies are the people who think about you more than your friends do.

Writing begins as a solitary obsession and ends up as communication.

Luc blinked innocently. That little fuck. “I gave you a piece of opal and a Luxen to nom-nom on.

You don’t always get to chose who you fall in love with

Emily is grateful to this man and gradually she begins to immerse herself into the world of Tiger’s obsession.

Long standing hatred between a man and a woman is just unspoken attraction that has bruised egos.

I often stood and stared into those tunnels and thought about what happened there; how I was separated from it only by time.” – The Procession

Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may...

I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can’t see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for your taste, your smell,...

But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end-and yet...

Mine first –mine last– mine even in the grave!

The beauty of love is that it demands to be two sided, otherwise its nothing but another obsession.

RedheadAll over the houseStrands of copper hairLike filaments from a cobwebCollect.If you and IWere ever to part— For months, perhaps years,I’d be combing out,Brushing or picking upStrands of significance,Traces of youIn my life

I’m a sensual adventurer, Sue. I want to explore the passion I feel, really dig into the heart of it, the dark parts, too. I wanted to take you on that journey with me. But...

I don’t believe outstandingly beautiful and charismatic women create obsession in what would otherwise be normal men, but rather they attract the weirdos and the stalkers; flames in the darkness that these disturbing people inhabit,...

You spend months barely acknowledging someone’s existence and then BOOM, you’re emotionally addicted to her. Science would probably blame it on chemicals, genetics or something equally logical, but it didn’t feel like anything logical

Ever since her obsession with Jonathan Cain, a deranged transfer student who had been at Sweet Valley for a month, Enid’s life had been entirely guyless.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it’s not necessarily ubiquitous.

Don’t let the colons end in a full stop.

I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.

Deep within I’m shaken by the violence of existing for only you…

Reality isn’t the most pleasant of atmospheres, Lieutenant. But we like to think we’re engineered for it. It’s a pretty fine piece of engineering, the kind an engineer can respect. Drag in an obsession and...

Most people who fall obsessively in love claim that it happens precipitously, unexpectedly […]But I believe there’s almost always a prerequisite. Falling in love in this way will usually occur at a time of transition....

I realized that I was okay with myself. I was quirky and withdrawn and loud, but I liked that. I smiled at strangers without thinking they were going to attack me and drag me into...

I have little left in myself — I must have you. The world may laugh — may call me absurd, selfish — but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be...

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else...

I think it was the institution…I was trying to master it.

The trouble with entering the upper echelon is you have to work harder to stay there.

She’d ceased spying upon him, that was true, but the damage was done. Every time he sat at his desk, he could feel her eyes upon him, even though he knew very well she’d shut...

This connection we have isn’t going away, it’s only getting stronger. Because the more I spend time with her, the closer I want to be.

Love and hate are not opposites; they are siblings birthed by obsession.

Dès ce moment, le doux espoir a remplacé la cruelle inquiétude. J’aurai cette femme, je l’enlèverai au mari qui la profane, j’oserai la ravir au Dieu même qu’elle adore.

It was as if I had only just been able to see colours and shapes for the first time. I was so enthralled with the buttons on Lestat’s black coat that I looked at nothing...

I am so sorry I do not have enough money to support your expensive obsessions and fancy lifestyle choice. I just love you and I wish I could love you the way you want me...

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bold; that clutches hold of you by the heart, as irrevocably as death; that becomes the lodestar by which you steer the...