Obsession Is Not Love Quotes

#1. Obsession is not love.

Karina Halle

#2. Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence.

Richard J. Foster

#3. Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.

Jeanette Winterson

#4. That is your greatest mistake. The love you felt for him wasn't love at all - it was obsession. Real love means sacrifice, not selfishness.

Morgan Rhodes

#5. Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.

John Ortberg

#6. This . . . this is not love. This is obsession.

Marie Lu

#7. I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.

Jenna Jameson

#8. What was it about my obsession with romance that always made me feel embarrassed? Like it was a silly, girlish thing to obsess about. In reality, it was what we all wanted, right?

L. H. Cosway

#9. If you love sex, let it be known. You don't have to walk around downtown naked or have some flyers printed up, but definitely don't be shy about your love (or obsession) for sex.

Roberto Hogue

#10. People who are "in love" lose interest in other pursuits. That is why we call it "obsession.

Gary Chapman

#11. Let go into His arms untill you find yourself obsessed with things devine

John Crowder

#12. My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love.

Jess C. Scott

#13. Love is not an obsession or a delusion. Love exists in longing and appreciation.

Debasish Mridha

#14. I just think that 'dating' is an engagement and not 'fun'. Emily says.

Pet Torres

#15. Because all the brilliant ones- they can sing it and they can paint it, but they can't do it. You can't expect them to love you.

Dakota Lane

#16. Trust is not an obsession, it's an extension of love. When we truly love someone, we give them our heart to hold in their hands. And when that love is returned, that very trust is balm to our souls.

Julie Lessman

#17. Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it. (p. 163)

Geneen Roth

#18. What is love, for God's sake, if not the most distilled obsession?

Tim O'Brien

#19. The rest of the short walk was silent. It was that loud sort
of silence where the absence is painful, when there's so much to
say, but nothing is said.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

#20. All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that.

Tennessee Williams

#21. In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer ... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either.

John Leo