#obsess

Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you’re getting old. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#obsession #age

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment. ↗

— Claude Monet

#genius #obsession #passion #art

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#misery #obsession #romance #love

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 reality can’t tolerate it. Something has to give; if reality goes, your fine piece of engineering is left with nothing to operate on. Nothing it was designed to operate on. So it operates badly. So kick the obsession out; start functioning the way you were designed to function. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#reality #design

Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people ↗

— Erich Fromm

#possession #experience

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

— Rick Riordan

#love #obsession #love

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#obsession #sleep #love

Much better now. And Sunny—there's no such thing as 'too much' when it comes to us. Too much mutual interest, or awareness, or desire, or too much damn love—there's no such thing." "I love you beyond obsession," I murmur, terrified because it is too much. "I love you to insanity," he replies, utterly solemn. "That's who I am, and that is who we are. I don't have any qualms about admitting it, and I don't have any regrets. Do you? ↗

— Olivia Lynde

#obsession #too-much #love

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. ↗

— Sara Gruen

#obsession #want #walking

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. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#perfect