Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor Isabel Meredith. This was what love ought to be like: playful and passionate and teasing, and dangerous, too, with sharp intelligence in it.
I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term, meaning an obsessive love, a state that's almost like a drug. Need like a wolf paces the perimeter of your world, back and forth, back and forth, never letting up. . . . You're appalled by the new appetites within you, kicking their feet and clawing to get out.
The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.
I like to make pies. Thats kind of my new obsession - peach, blueberry, apple, strawberry. I make a really good pumpkin pie with real pumpkin.
My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are.
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
Cure for an obsession: get another one.
We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.
don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another
Writing is putting one's obsessions in order.
Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.
Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.
I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction. . . my obsession.
An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.
My most favorite entrance music of all time it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song.
The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.
Unfortunately, we live our life in public, so any weight gain or pimple is a national story. I don't get this obsession with weight. It's not only Hollywood; it's our society.
I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.