Obsessional Quotes

#1. Real love" - "This kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth.

Gary Chapman

#2. Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth.

Arthur Koestler

#3. But the obsessional work of cutting and pasting also enacts, in the most literal way possible, the generic annexation of the poetic by the novelistic. When

Ann Radcliffe

#4. The greater the sense of powerlessness and the greater lack of authentic will, the more grows either submission or an obsessional desire for satisfaction of one's whims and the insistence on arbitrariness.

Erich Fromm

#5. Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

Sigmund Freud

#6. Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

Jacques Lacan

#7. Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#8. My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

Yayoi Kusama

#9. Protect everything, detect everything, contain everything - obsessional society. Save time. Save money. Save our souls - phobic society. Low tar. Low energy. Low calories. Low sex. Low speed - anorexic society.

Jean Baudrillard

#10. It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.

Dirk Bogarde

#11. I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.

J.G. Ballard

#12. The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

V.S. Pritchett

#13. Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

Karl Abraham

#14. Only an obsessional procrastinator would cry, 'Let's run for our lives, but not till Wednesday afternoon.' Back

John Cleese

#15. All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

Duffy Daugherty

#16. Jonak says to say he send congratulations and well-wishes and all the things he ought - he was so pleased with himself for being an uncle he couldn't sit still to think them out.

Sarah Monette

#17. I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

#18. Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs of genius.

Madame De Stael

#19. Markets look a lot less efficient from the banks of the Hudsonthan the banks of the Charles.

Fischer Black

#20. I can't erase the past, only learn from it.

Kamal Ravikant

#21. Let it be said by our children's children thta when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried frth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

Barack Obama