Obsession Quotes

• Any obsession is dangerous.

  Christina Ricci

  Actresses, Obsessed, Dangerous

  "Hidden Depths". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2004.

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• Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Drinking, Alcohol, Mind

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.31, Bantam

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• Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession.

  Selima Hill

  Talent, Invisible, Poet

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• Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  Ugo Betti

  Ideas, People, Obsessed

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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  Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Fashion, Truth

  Franz Kafka (1995). “The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories”, Random House LLC

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• 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

  Answers, Coming Back, Humans

  Interview with Divina Infusino, American Way Magazine, June 15, 1995.

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• Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Generosity, Addiction

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Artist, People, Care

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• How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ideas, Obscene, Touched

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3768, Delphi Classics

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• What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one you’re playing. It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Sometimes I think songwriting is about tightening the heartstrings as much as possible without bringing on a heart attack.

  Keith Richards

  Running, Song, Taken

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.193, Hachette UK

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• I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.

  Margaret Atwood

  Nausea, Supposed To Be

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians.

  Lady Gaga

  Culture, Loyal, Lifestyle

  "Lady Gaga With Three Heads Covers V Magazine, First Fashion Column Inside" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2011.

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• One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Giving Up, Glowing, Evil

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• Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

  Abdul Kalam

  Technology, Years, Legacy

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• Without obsession, life is nothing.

  John Waters

  Life Is

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• It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

  Robert Bly

  Calamity, Humans, Human Beings

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• I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

  Barbra Streisand

  Art, Thinking, Names

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• For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Life, Dying

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• If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Stress, Warrior, Effort

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Engineers, medical people, scientific people, have an obsession with solving the problems of reality, when actually ... once you reach a basic level of wealth in society, most problems are actually problems of perception.

  Rory Sutherland

  Motivation, Inspiration, Reality

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• What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.

  Anais Nin

  Heart, Blood, Ebb And Flow

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• 'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  Ugo Betti

  Men, Ideas, Mad

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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• Never love for me, only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.

  Carrie Fisher

  Running, Choices, Stills

  "Carrie Fisher Opens Up About 'Star Wars,' The Gold Bikini And Her On-Set Affair". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wutc.org. November 28, 2016.

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• Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

  Mitch Albom

  Fearless, Unspoken Words, Haunting

  Twitter post from Aug 05, 2013

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• The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for the nerdy kid who studies comic books and turns into this genius, and it is also true for the nerdy kid who listens to every nerdy thing that Led Zeppelin put out. That kind of obsession in a 16-year-old is not ugly. It's beautiful.

  Penn Jillette

  Beautiful, Book, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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