Quotes about Obsession

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

He loves power. A terrible love.

He saw her before he saw anything else in the room.

He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.

He stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and,far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguishing nothing except a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock.

I broke a date for him. To-day I feel I'd break anything for him, including the ten commandments and my neck.

He had shown it so often that I think it was more real to him now than the house itself.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

There was a spark inside that holiest of holy places that made people want to possess it, and what men yearn for they often destroy.

Lucy Green couldn't stop reading. She was a secret reader...