Monomania Quotes

#1. That before living agent, now became the living instrument.

Herman Melville

#2. Could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify through his college years.

Jon Krakauer

#3. Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. Unbendingness can also be monomania, it can ca be tyranny, and also it can be brittle, whereas what is flexible can also be humane, and strong enough to last.

Salmon Rushdie

#5. My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.

Richard Lewis

#6. COKANE [looking compassionately at him] Ah, my dear fellow, the love of money is the root of all evil.
LICKCHEESE. Yes, sir; and we'd all like to have the tree growing in our garden.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. Even in the saddest moments of life, the happiness of simply being, the joy of just having existence must be remembered strongly!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania ...

Agnes Repplier

#9. Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.

Paul Russo

#10. Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.

Thomas Huxley

#11. We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?

Veronica Roth

#12. We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.

Kanye West

#13. Drumming completely eclipsed my life from age 13, when I started drum lessons. Everything disappeared. I'd done well in school up until that time. I was fairly adjusted socially up until that time. And I became completely monomania, obsessed all through my teens. Nothing else existed anymore.

Neil Peart

#14. I had considered envying men before
I pretend to envy things like their higher incidence of ungrounded confidence and monomania
but I don't really envy those things, and I'm not sure I even believe in them
but this, the covert-baby-having thing, was the first real thing.

Rivka Galchen

#15. But, you never know when The Libertines is going to come along.

Carl Barat

#16. Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.

Sena Jeter Naslund

#17. Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#18. learning eachother by do it together... growing together by understanding eachother...

Toge Aprilianto

#19. Your personal core values define who you are, and a company's core values ultimately define the company's character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

Tony Hsieh

#20. [G]lobal warming, that manufactured monomania.

Ilana Mercer

#21. Eccentricity is developed monomania.

Bayard Taylor

#22. Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

Simone Weil

#23. For this is the great secret, which was known to all educated men in our day: that by what men think, we create the world around us, daily new. And

Marion Zimmer Bradley