OBSESSION QUOTES
quotations about obsession
Our thoughts shape us. We become our obsessions.
KILROY J. OLDSTER
Dead Toad Scrolls
Obsession is a commitment; you have to believe in it, because it soon takes you over.
LENNARD J. DAVIS
Obsession: A History
The purpose in an obsession is to satisfy the self, not the object or person desired. The object of the obsession is relatively unimportant, or is important only in relation to the one who is obsessed. Obsession is possessiveness--that is selfishness--taken to the extreme.
RICHARD E. MEZO
A Student's Guide to Wuthering Heights
Passion or obsession is the modality of differentiation which conditions the possibility of a cognitive or intentional relation.
JOSEPH LIBERTSON
Proximity Levinas, Blanchot, Bataille and Communication
I began to understand that the most worthwhile obsession is an obsession that is actually independent of the object of fixation. The object is only borrowed as a pretext, a means, an environment, through which or in which the obsessed person can project his own eternal and essential hunger.
THI HOAI PHAM
Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam
Obsession is the rocket fuel of our creativity.
JORDAN RITTER
"What Are the Challenges of Running a Values-Based Company?", Huffington Post, January 26, 2017
We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Life, the Universe and Everything
Bond's own obsessions are conveniently displaced onto his enemies: 007 remains the good Nietzschean, whereas Drax, Mr. Big, Dr. No and Co. are the evil Nietzscheans.
ISHAY LANDA
James Bond and Philosophy: Questions Are Forever
An obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more.
MARK BARROWCLIFFE
The Elfish Gene
An obsession is intrusive because it does not require a permit to walk into the brain.
JOSE A. YARYURA-TOBIAS
"Commentary on Therapy Effects on Cognition", Cognitive Approaches to Obsessions and Compulsions
A purely individualized myth is an obsession, sometimes a psychosis.
NORTHROP FRYE
Late Notebooks, 1982-1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
NORMAN MAILER
American Way, June 15, 1995
A man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
GEORGE SAVILE
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections
All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Orlando
Obsession makes everything possible.
NOVALA TAKEMOTO
Missin'
The train of thought of an obsessed person always runs on a single track.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Obsession is just another round on the merry-go-round of unfinished business.
DALE ANDREWS
Things I Say to Myself
I've heard it said that obsession is the root of all comedy. I'm not sure I entirely believe that, but I do think there's something to the idea that people are funnier when they're willing to risk not being funny. When they're willing to hold onto an idea so tightly that it might not even be a joke.
VINCE MANCINI
"Brett Gelman Explains Why 'Lemon' Is A Real Film", Uproxx, February 2, 2017
This isn't a crush, it's obsession.You are never not in my thoughts. Your scent carries across a room and paralyzes me with longing. I don't want to hold your hand. Part of me wants to set you on fire and hold you while the flame consumes us both, to eat your heart so I know that only I possess it entirely.
GWEM HAYES
Falling Under
Passion felt personally judgmental and just couldn't be measured, but Obsession was easier to see and encourage, and its absence didn't mean you were a bad person.
JORDAN RITTER
"What Are the Challenges of Running a Values-Based Company?", Huffington Post, January 26, 2017