Obsession Quotes
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Obsession Quotes & Sayings
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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
I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.
— Jacqueline Bisset
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
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
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
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
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
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.
— Cynthia Ozick
The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession.
— Jimenez Lai
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
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
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
You must be careful. There are things that should never be given up. You must persevere.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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
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
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
Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye, he's chasing ME now; not I, HIMthat'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
Love obsession often serves as a distraction, keeping the individual's gaze from more painful thoughts.
— Irvin D. Yalom
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
