Quotes About Obsession With Beauty

#1. My movie [The Neon Demon] is a hyper-version of the obsession with beauty. As this crazy obsession grows, longevity does not. Everything seems to become younger and younger. The girls and people around them cannibalize themselves.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#2. I am not a part, I am whole.

Joan Ambu

#3. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

Dale Carnegie

#4. What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

Julie Burchill

#5. Anything that inspires addiction or obsession - substances, entertainment, beauty, secrecy - is dangerous in that it can lead to isolation, self-absorption, and disconnection, to paralyzed stasis: an immobility that gathers like a force.

Greg Carlisle

#6. When you start somewhere, you've started.

Mike Caro

#7. You can't separate the people from the places - although I sometimes like traveling in places where there are no people.

Paul Theroux

#8. Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

Toni Morrison

#9. A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

Naomi Wolf

#10. By making a soul connection, your true purpose in life will become the foundation of everything you do.

Deepak Chopra

#11. A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Naomi Wolf

#12. Disagreement is something normal.

Dalai Lama

#13. It is only by seeing beauty in everything that we can see it in any one single thing, day after day. Don't run into the arms of obsession, for that quickly fades. Long lasting love comes from an open, loving heart.

Vironika Tugaleva

#14. Left him delighted with the imaginary Audition of the phantasmal sea-surge,

Ezra Pound

#15. I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

Hugh Leonard

#16. What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.
-Emerson

Stephen R. Covey

#17. No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.

Sonia Sanchez

#18. That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her house. You can amscray whenever you want without being rude. The site gets its "hit" and you know more about our species' diversity.

Penn Jillette

#19. I think there has always been an obsession with youth and beauty. What's missing is the equal obsession with respect for ... older people ... and their wisdom and knowledge and courage.

Julie Christie

#20. Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

Hannah Arendt

#21. And he ate up all her vision, as he had done the first day she saw him so long ago.

Lawren Leo

#22. I love a question I can't answer. It keeps things interesting, even after so many years.

Raymond E. Feist

#23. Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?"
"Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticipation and horror. Anticipation is the carrot suspended before the jackass to keep him moving forward. Horror is what he would see if he took his eyes off the carrot.

Louis L'Amour