Obsession Quotes

1. "I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet."
Author: Alice Sebold

2. "The reason the program is so successful is because alcoholics help other alcoholics. I've never met a Normie (our lingo for a person who doesn't have a problem with drugs and alcohol) who could even conceive of what it's like to be an alcoholic. Normies are always going, 'There's this new pill you can take and you won't want to shoot heroin anymore.' That shows a fundamental misunderstanding of alcoholism and drug addiction. These aren't just physical allergies, they're obsessions of the mind and maladies of the spirit. It's a threefold disease. And if it's partly a spiritual malady, then there's a spiritual cure."
Author: Anthony Kiedis

3. "I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat."
Author: Antonin Artaud

4. "Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life."
Author: Arianna Huffington

5. "I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession."
Author: Brooks Robinson

6. "The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the memory of their obliteration acknowledged. It is a moral obsession, the lonely legacy passed onto the third and fourth generation who no longer speak Armenian but who carry within them the seeds of resentment that will not be quashed."
Author: Chris Hedges

7. "I wondered if my life was going to be one immersion after another, a great march of shallow, unpopular popular culture infatuations that don't really last and don't really mean anything. Sometimes I even think maybe my deepest obsessions are just random manifestations of my loneliness or isolation. Maybe I infuse ordinary experience with a kind of sacred aura to mitigate the spiritual vapidity of my life....no, it is beautiful to be enraptured. To be enthralled by something, anything. And it isn't random. It speaks to you for a reason. If you wanted to, you could look at it that way, and you might find you aren't wasting your life. You are discovering things about yourself and the world, even if it is just what you find beautiful, right now, this second."
Author: Dana Spiotta

8. "[...] passion is by no means the fuller life which it seems to be in the dreams of adolescence, but is on the contrary a kind of naked and denuding intensity, verily, a bitter destitution, the impoverishment of a mind being emptied of all diversity, an obsession of the imagination by a single image."
Author: Denis De Rougemont

9. "People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity."
Author: Diane Setterfield

10. "We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win."
Author: Douglas Adams

11. "What moves men of genius, or rather, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is not enough."
Author: Edouard Delacroix

12. "Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."
Author: Elie Wiesel

13. "In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions."
Author: Elyn Saks

14. "During all the time we were together, I don't think I ever found out. But once I was with her, Ididn't need to. We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understandthe other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own."
Author: Gayle Forman

15. "The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession."
Author: George Sand

16. "Obsessions turn people off."
Author: Grover Norquist

17. "And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger."
Author: Ian Fleming

18. "Love obsession often serves as a distraction, keeping the individual's gaze from more painful thoughts."
Author: Irvin D. Yalom

19. "I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous."
Author: J. J. Abrams

20. "Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you're getting old."
Author: Jeanette Winterson

21. "What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?"
Author: Jerry Seinfeld

22. "Certainly no one should take delight in disputes over minor points. It is undoubtedly true that the regulative principle has occasionally been misused in that way. An obsession with applying any principle down to the smallest detail can easily become a destructive form of legalism. But the principle of sola scriptura as it applies to worship is nevertheless worth defending fiercely."
Author: John F. MacArthur Jr.

23. "Because obsession is the thing in us that makes us not everybody else."
Author: Joss Whedon

24. "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."
Author: Julie Lessman

25. "The current phone obsession is a disease," Chance said. "Everyone's gone mad, typing to themselves all day long like mindless robots."
Author: Kathy Reichs

26. "What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far."
Author: Leon Wieseltier

27. "Until Jesus Christ is the obsession of your heart, you'll always be looking to mere men to meet your needs that only Him can fill. Only when you make Jesus Christ your first love,will you be ready for a love story that reflects His glory."
Author: Leslie Ludy

28. "...an obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more."
Author: Mark Barrowcliffe

29. "I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do."
Author: Mary Archer

30. "My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it."
Author: Nathan Kress

31. "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?"
Author: Olivia Lynde

32. "Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them."
Author: Pamela Stephenson

33. "She emptied herself of Fabio and of herself, of all the useless efforts she had made to get where she was and find nothing there. With detached curiosity she observed the rebirth of her weaknesses, her obsessions. This time she would let them decide, since she hadn't been able to do anything anyway. Against certain parts of yourself you remain powerless, she said to herself, as she regressed pleasurably to the time when she was a girl."
Author: Paolo Giordano

34. "I should not yield to it, he told himself once again as he walked along carrying the briefcase. Compulsion-obsession-phobia. But he could not free himself. It in my grip, I in its, he thought."
Author: Philip K. Dick

35. "Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession."
Author: Philip Larkin

36. "Sex could be a gift of God, but when it becomes an obsession, it plunders all intelligence and people are driven to abominable acts to satisfy their lust. When passion is frustrated, people lose all good sense."
Author: Radhanath Swami

37. "...Gabrielle and Elaine seemed to hit it off by talking books — something trending about a very young billionaire and his obsession with an even younger woman...and sex. Lots of erotic sex scenes in the book like apparently on every page...Who has time? Why even read about sex in a book when you can have it instead? I don't get that. And billionaires in their twenties? I mentally shook my head and pretended to care. I'm such a bastard."
Author: Raine Miller

38. "Most of us can manage no more than a narrow little obsession with a particular human who we mistakenly imagine can satisfy our gargantuan yearning for the real, primordial thing."
Author: Rob Brezsny

39. "Our obsession with symmetry..."
Author: Sabah Carrim

40. "Sin stared at him before shaking his head and pulling out his gun. "And you say I'm the one with a blond obsession."Emilio's expression morphed into a glare and he cocked his own weapon. "Shut the fuck up."Sin hesitated for only a moment more before following Emilio out into the office. Sin couldn't help the small, self-satisfied smirk from ghosting across his features.One point for Vega junior."
Author: Santino Hassell

41. "I think life's an irrational obsession."
Author: Sean Penn

42. "Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera."
Author: Sela Ward

43. "You cannot have more love and desire; for someone, than you have for yourself, or it isn't love, it's obsession. People mistake one for the other all the time."Stanley Christopher"
Author: Stanley Christopher

44. "The obsession was gone. We liked each other, even loved each other. And our sex was still good, but the hunger was gone. Either it just wore out or we wore each other out. A passion like that pushes everything else out of its path. You can't be married and have jobs and children and work and write and have something like an emotional bubonic plague."
Author: Stephen Dobyns

45. "Accepting God's acceptance of me doesn't mean I'm going to stop trying. It means I'm going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession."
Author: Steven Furtick

46. "He could quite quickly become detached from the nuances of common human emotion. Particularly if he was engaged in some aspect of a scientific problem or research. His work excluded any consideration for the feelings of those around him. And he rarely excused himself or justified his behavior. It was as if he was compelled to focus all his energy on one subject and was unaware that others did not follow his obsession."
Author: Theresa Breslin

47. "Maybe you could drive yourself crazy trying to chart backward all the causes and effects, all the ends and means, tracing everything to some original sin that may or may not have actually occurred but that people accepted as true, or true enough. Maybe staring into the eyes of all that history was a dangerous thing to do, as her mother had calmly warned her. Maybe you were supposed to move forward armed with just enough history to help you figure out the present without obsessing over the past. But how much was enough? Where was the gray area between ignorance and obsession?"
Author: Thomas Mullen

48. "I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything."
Author: Vikram Seth

49. "I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds."
Author: Yvonne Strahovski

50. "This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day by day, into the microcosmic single festive household, each with its own rituals and obsessions, rules and dreams. You didn't feel you could call people. They didn't feel they could phone you. How does one cry for help from these seasonal prisons?"
Author: Zadie Smith

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