OBSESSION QUOTES

quotations about obsession

Obsession quote

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


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


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


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

DOUGLAS ADAMS

Life, the Universe and Everything

Tags: Douglas Adams


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

Tags: Norman Mailer


A man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

GEORGE SAVILE

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections


Obsession makes everything possible.

NOVALA TAKEMOTO

Missin'


All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Orlando

Tags: Virginia Woolf


Obsession is just another round on the merry-go-round of unfinished business.

DALE ANDREWS

Things I Say to Myself


The train of thought of an obsessed person always runs on a single track.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


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