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A lie of obsession is still a lie — Veronica Roth

His hate wasn't professional; it was an obsession, a fixation, as if unrequited love had grown awful, twisted into something ugly. — Tom Rob Smith

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions. — Jeb Bush

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films. — Jacqueline Bisset

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse. — Juliana Hatfield

Obsession does not seek out problems and correct them; it manufactures them out of nothing, feeds them, makes them stronger. — Harlan Coben

We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability. — Richard Sennett

It's not love. It's an obsession. And it's not art. It's a way of seeing things. A way to see the things that aren't there. — Kirsty Eagar

You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it. — Nicolas Roeg

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen. — Sundra Oakley

My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are, — Hugh Masekela

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you ... — Sarah McLachlan

I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out. — John Ruskin

You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession. — Kate Forsyth

Worshiping someone requires complete passivity. To turn the principle of immobility into a rule. — Unica Zurn

Killing prostitutes had become an obsession with me. I could not stop myself. It was like a drug. — Peter Sutcliffe

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win. — Douglas Adams

You become what you think about all day long. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show. — Vanessa Marcil

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly. — Carl Honore

Ever since I was little, I really loved boyish clothes - I had a real obsession with strict clothes, like uniforms. They really got me going. — Bella Freud

I had possessed her - and she never knew it. — Vladimir Nabokov

My most favorite entrance music of all time it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song. — Joseph Bruce

When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker? — Shannon L. Alder

To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible. — Tippi Hedren

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Cure for an obsession: get another one. — Mason Cooley

Undeniable obsession of words that quickens my spirit. — Euginia Herlihy

Christ. I fear I've just met the devil. Figures she's a woman. — J. Daniels

I do go through periods of obsession with certain records. — Britt Daniel

It is in his obsessions that mankind most closely resembles his machines. — Matthew De Abaitua

The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists. — Yann Martel

Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation. — David Pietrusza

No-one inspired me growing up more than Thom Yorke. I was eleven when the obsession hit hard and I'm still such a huge fan. — Stacey King

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome. — Donald Glover

She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone. — Gillian Flynn

I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens. — Samantha Bond

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

I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness. — Jeff Lemire

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life — Eric Hoffer

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing. — Cynthia Ozick

Love and hate are not opposites; they are siblings birthed by obsession. — Steve Maraboli

The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession. — Jimenez Lai

I was obsessed, and like most obsessed people, I was the last one to know it. — Kate Bornstein

What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day. — Dave Barry

I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing. — Grace Hartigan

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness. — Michel De Montaigne

A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer — John Connolly

What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination. — Brian Koppelman

Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession. — Ben Harper

The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts. — Vincent Van Gogh

Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work. — Sandy Skoglund

Another word for talent is obsession. — Marion Dane Bauer

I touched you and my life stopped — Pablo Neruda

It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession. — Mary Gaitskill

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. — Clint Eastwood

These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession. — Nalini Singh

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse. — Alexander Pushkin

I will become my undoing if I become my obsession -excerpt from Abnegation manifesto — Veronica Roth

I have this obsession with really cool, old books. — Constance Zimmer

Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner. — Sophie Calle

I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit. — Christoffer Boe

If I blink she'll disappear," he told her. She looked at him and said,"Maybe that is the best thing for you. — Donna Lynn Hope

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time. — Gary Shteyngart

Obsession is just a variety of addiction ~ Ian Malcolm — Michael Crichton

TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged. — Bryant McGill

It happened to some people, that obsession with throwing their clothes off at an age when it would be best to keep them on. — Philip Hensher

Obsession is an idolatry word. — Kyle Idleman

The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure. — Christian Bale

When love burns toward the Savior a sincere passion to render obedience to all of His precepts is our desire, our delight and our holy obsession. — Albert Martin

You must be careful. There are things that should never be given up. You must persevere. — Vladimir Nabokov

I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit. — Mary Shelley

Mistaking obsession for love is one of the greatest mistakes you'll every make — Karina Halle

People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?" — Matthea Harvey

I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something. — David Tennant

She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment — Daphne Du Maurier

To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession. — Walt Disney

People are like, 'What is your whole obsession with butterflies?' I'm like, 'I'm not obsessed. I like them. Can't anybody like something?' — Mariah Carey

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it. — Damon Galgut

I don't think my social media obsession is dangerous. I joked. — Cambria Hebert

Obsession is a terrible thing as might already imagine. It gives you the sort of courage that makes you do craziest of things — K.J. Kilton

I went through an obsession with eyebrows. I used to paint my eyebrows really, really strong. I look back now, and some were a little bit strong. — Tyra Banks

Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world. — Rebecca West

An obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more. — Mark Barrowcliffe

Passion is curiously exclusive and the need for it irresistible, while promiscuity is passionless--a mere collector's obsession. — John Peter Nettl

Don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another — Irvine Welsh

Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye, he's chasing ME now; not I, HIM
that's bad — Herman Melville

You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can't be both. — Nenia Campbell

I often stood and stared into those tunnels and thought about what happened there; how I was separated from it only by time. - The Procession — Benjamin Brindise

A friend of mine told me, you know your obsession with girls who talk like sexy babies? You have to put that into your script. — Lake Bell

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

I wish there was a word more than 'love' itself to convey what I feel for you. — Faraaz Kazi

Blake Landon was my drug, my obsession-a habit I had no intentions of ever quitting. — Meredith Wild

I long for the day I no longer long for him. — Franki Fiori

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

Obsessions are always dangerous. — Agatha Christie

Today in this household's obsession with researching pointless questions, I can confirm that Shakespeare cannot, in fact, ever have had a banana. — Debra Ferreday

Man's obsession with his own wants is taking him further from those without whom happiness cannot be found. It is taking him from his people. — Anasazi Foundation

There is an obsession in the Church with sin management. People think more about their sins than about their redemption through Jesus — John Paul Warren