Obsession Quotes - Page 11

• There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.

  Louis Aragon

  Flower, Garden, Errors

  11 Copy quote

• What is the best way to go beyond self-interest and obsession
  with personal demands, needs and disappointments?  
  The answer is: Whatever you do, may it benefit everyone.

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  Disappointment, Self, Needs

  47 Copy quote

• My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.

  Peter Greenaway

  People, Interesting

  Film Comment Interview, May/June 1990.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the closed world of the gynaeceum, despite the gardens and parkland extending beyong the horizon, despite the insurmountable walls separating pavillions and palaces, the tangled web of our fate was inescapable. Why did these women love each other to the point of madness? Why did they loathe one another so vehemently, and why did sworn enemies feel such horror and fascination for one another? Why should furious hate become obsession, then intoxication and the very reason to live?Because love and hate were the two heads of the demon.

  Shan Sa

  Wall, Hate, Fate

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Self, Firsts, Process

  Ben Harper Interview, MusicFix, February 14, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Political, Elements, France

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2016). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.62, Basic Books

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.

  Cameron Crowe

  America, Success And Failure, Wanted

  4 Copy quote

• You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.

  Bruce Lee

  Determination, Real, Fighting

  "The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee" by John Little, (p. 161), 1996.

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Garden, Desire, Doe

  12 Copy quote

• I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.

  Sebastian Stan

  Tennessee, Actors, Eras

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.

  Christian Louboutin

  Shoes, Long, Pairs

  "Christian Louboutin tells Cinderella story to Jeanne Beker". Interview with Jeanne Beker, www.thestar.com. July 19, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

  Georges Bernanos

  Nostalgia, Purity, Impurity

  Georges Bernanos (2000). “Monsieur Ouine”, p.213, U of Nebraska Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual

  Julianna Baggott

  World, Mutual, One Thing

  4 Copy quote

• We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.

  Wallace Stevens

  Truth, Insane, Littles

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.33, Vintage

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

  Johnny Depp

  Revenge, Men, Thinking

  "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Johnny Depp interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

  Wendell Berry

  Future, Granted, Security

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.50, Counterpoint

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.

  Ransom Riggs

  Girl, Baby, War

  "9 Creepy Photos That Appear In ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’" by Ransom Riggs, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Morning, Night, Mad

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of my obsessions in life is that we have the tools to manufacture moments and real things, but it's overwhelming and there's a lot of fear and you think maybe you'll be rejected or embarrassed or somehow hurt emotionally. So we don't do the things we know we can do, but we can make people feel better and make people happier with compliments or just being positive and that sort of thing and sending it their way.

  Pete Holmes

  Hurt, Real, Feel Better

  Source: www.avclub.com

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy so many lives in the U.S., but infect the rest of the world with its obsession with getting more, ignoring the deadly effect that has on the planet.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Dream, Inspiration, World

  7 Copy quote

• My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Memories, Blood, People

  7 Copy quote

• Obsession can be a great thing or it can also destroy lives.

  Joel Schumacher

  Great Things

  "Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen and Joel Schumacher Interviewed - 'The Number 23'". Press conference, collider.com. February 21, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma. That's where I trace the familial line of murder mystery obsession.

  Christopher Bollen

  Mother, Dad, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Feet, Obsessed, Faltering

  4 Copy quote

• The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.

  Vera Farmiga

  Parent, Anxiety, Being A Parent

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source