Quotes About Obsession

#1. Fantasy could easily turn into obsession.

J.T. Ellison

#2. 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

#3. There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you've gone, where others have gone before you. To commit to memory every obstacle, every danger. Shakespeare had a term for this obsession: mappery.

Justina Chen Headley

#4. There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#5. My obsession when I was kid, from '85 into the '90s, was Gianni Versace. It was Helmut Lang. It was Margiela. So I said, "I cannot have Givenchy only as a luxury house; I'm going to introduce products for everybody, things that are reachable."

Riccardo Tisci

#6. The big problem with power, of course, is obsession. Once you get some of it and feel it, it dominates your whole life and it's all you can think about. That doesn't have to happen.

Frederick Lenz

#7. All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.

Aldous Huxley

#8. One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into
a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession.
Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic,
physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.

Niyi Osundare

#9. I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.

Ellie Goulding

#10. I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

Elie Wiesel

#11. Perhaps the same labeling obsession caused cartographers to split this body of water into two oceans, even though it is impossible to touch an exact point at which their currents begin to differ. Splitting. Labeling. Seeking out otherness. Some things don't change.

M.L. Stedman

#12. Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.

Charles Colson

#13. My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.

Ben Elliot

#14. If anyone here is secretly dreaming of making the Olympics, I can tell you exactly how to do it, two words: Sustained Obsession. The obsession isn't so hard. But keeping it sustained is a tough nut to crack. A heart-felt enemy can go a long way to sustaining your obsession. Love your enemy.

Brad Alan Lewis

#15. I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

Vikram Seth

#16. Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'

Lorrie Moore

#17. Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely for such a long time, when I found someone or something that I liked, I felt helplessly drawn to it. I suppose that accounts for some of the creepiness in my music.

Lana Del Rey

#18. From the confusion in his expression, she sensed it was a hopeless question. He did not know. Years of hate and obsession had twisted and poisoned him, had wrung from him every surviving drop of humanity.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#19. I went through an obsession with eyebrows. I used to paint my eyebrows really, really strong. I look back now, and some were a little bit strong.

Tyra Banks

#20. If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession, be it music, the ballet or just a basic degree. You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way

Henry Rollins

#21. Your voice is the wildest thing you own," Brooke says to me. "And you're giving it away. You can't see it. Your obsession is blinding you." He is angry. He is talking in shorthand. "You're losing yourself.

Terry Tempest Williams

#22. I think love and obsession are almost one and the same thing at some times. Because the person you end up falling in love with, there is an element of obsession in the early days - it's all you can think about.

Ladyhawke

#23. Such obsession with reaching the moon, because they had failed to reach each other, each a solitary planet! In silence, in mystery, a human being was formed, was exploded, was struck by other passing bodies, was burned, was deserted. And then it was born in the molten love of the one who cared.

Anais Nin

#24. Does she think she can keep fucking with my head and weaving her devious webs thinking I'll always get caught in them? She's toying with my lust for her, my obsession, and I keep letting her.

Shantaye Brown

#25. You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.

Barnes Wallis

#26. Today our world is mad in its obsession with pleasure, sex, and money. Its ear is too dull to hear the truth. Most men's eyes are blind. They do not want to see. They do not want to hear. They hurry to their doom.

Billy Graham

#27. One of my symptoms included my obsession with ghosts and law enforcement
I carry around a police badge with me, for example. I became obsessed by Hans Holzer, the greatest ghost hunter ever. That's when the idea of my film Ghostbusters was born.

Dan Aykroyd

#28. He's got some obsession with feathers. Sings lots of Bon Jovi too.

Anonymous

#29. Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners' obsession with mathematical, general-equilibrium models.

Robert Higgs

#30. In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable.

John Green

#31. Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen.

Sundra Oakley

#32. Rachel paused. "Do I need to get your mom? Did you just find out you're pregnant, and you don't know the baby daddy?" "No! And you really need to lay off Sixteen and Pregnant." "It's a train wreck. You wanna look away, but you just can't," Rachel said in defense of her reality show obsession.

Calia Read

#33. It would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought stood for reason and the love of peace instead of heading wildly with blind obsession for new war.

Hermann Hesse

#34. Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

Joss Whedon

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

Naomi Wolf

#36. If you love sex, let it be known. You don't have to walk around downtown naked or have some flyers printed up, but definitely don't be shy about your love (or obsession) for sex.

Roberto Hogue

#37. She is my inspiration. My muse. My obsession.

Amy Plum

#38. Figuring her out was fast becoming an obsession,

Christine Feehan

#39. As God was expunged from American life, idols came in to fill the void; idols of sensuality, idols of greed, of money, of success, comfort, materialism, pleasure, sexual immorality, self-worship, self-obsession. The sacred increasingly disappeared, and the profane took its place.

Jonathan Cahn

#40. You're my obsession, I'm your possession You own the deepest part of me You crawled into the darkness, set my monster free So scream, bleed, call out to me But never say stop, never flee

Pepper Winters

#41. In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.

Rita Mae Brown

#42. Every Christian should become an ambassador of Christ ... every Christian should be so intoxicated with Christ and so filled with holy fervor that nothing could ever quench his [passion] ... Let us capture some of the magnificent obsession that [the] early Christians had!

Billy Graham

#43. We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by having a terrific love for this world.

Frederick Lenz

#44. Several years ago, I began losing my hair, and like a lot of men, it was a major concern to me, in fact it was practically an obsession. But, also I'm an actor, so I'm in the public eye a lot and I really felt that my hair loss could affect my career prospects.

James Nesbitt

#45. I feel the sexiest when I'm by myself, walking around nude. I have this new obsession with nudity, it's really weird. It may sound weird, but I just really love embracing the body.

Ciara

#46. Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.

Walter Moers

#47. Determination could easily become obsession.

N.K. Jemisin

#48. It was a huge obsession taking over my life, every injustice leading logically to a related and worse injustice until I was standing in the center of a pulsating ring of pain and torture and oppression and the only real solution was to just kill yourself. Just get off the fucking fucked-up planet.

Michelle Tea

#49. What moves those of genius, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

Eugene Delacroix

#50. Willpower and dedication are good words' Roland remarked 'There's a bad one, though, that means the same thing. That one is obsession

Stephen King

#51. Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.

Beth Ditto

#52. I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

Illeana Douglas

#53. Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

Julianna Baggott

#54. The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.

Benjamin Hoff

#55. Obsession is a terrible thing as might already imagine. It gives you the sort of courage that makes you do craziest of things

K.J. Kilton

#56. Most of us can manage no more than a narrow little obsession with a particular human who we mistakenly imagine can satisfy our gargantuan yearning for the real, primordial thing.

Rob Brezsny

#57. He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes.

Emile Zola

#58. Since I was really little, I've just always had an obsession with, not just science fiction, but science and space. And also because as time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

Moby

#59. A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.

Vernon Howard

#60. I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.

Jenna Jameson

#61. For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the world and anything that comes our way. We have always known that there is a book for every occasion and every obsession. When in doubt, we are always looking things up.

Diane Schoemperlen

#62. Why the obsession with worldly possessions ? When it's your time to go, they have to stay behind, so pack light.

Alex Morritt

#63. The obsession with the afterlife is born of a panic at not having memories of a before-life.

Dean Cavanagh

#64. I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

Michel Hazanavicius

#65. If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.

Frederick Lenz

#66. Obsession is more valuable to an artist than knowledge.

Marty Rubin

#67. Unfortunately, we live our life in public, so any weight gain or pimple is a national story. I don't get this obsession with weight. It's not only Hollywood; it's our society.

Eva Longoria

#68. We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.

John Ortberg

#69. Tessa has an obsession with Target that I'll never understand.

Anna Todd

#70. An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.

Henry Mintzberg

#71. The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

George Sand

#72. I have a kind of unhealthy obsession with movies.

Kevin Wilson

#73. I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.

Chris Cuomo

#74. I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

Zosia Mamet

#75. She noted the lack of female hardware hackers, and was enraged at the male hacker obsession with technological play and power.

Steven Levy

#76. 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

#77. I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

Annie Baker

#78. There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.

James Gray

#79. What was it about my obsession with romance that always made me feel embarrassed? Like it was a silly, girlish thing to obsess about. In reality, it was what we all wanted, right?

L. H. Cosway

#80. The form is always the measure of the obsession.

Alberto Giacometti

#81. Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression

Lucretia Mott

#82. I like to make pies. That's kind of my new obsession - peach, blueberry, apple, strawberry. I make a really good pumpkin pie with real pumpkin.

Morgan Saylor

#83. What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession.

Billy Graham

#84. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so called 'diversity' actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist ...

Ron Paul

#85. I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

J.J. Abrams

#86. I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ... make it a better place for this and future generations.

W. Clement Stone

#87. ,,, let go of the real source of our unhappiness: our own self-obsession. Stress, loneliness, pessimism, financial worries, and unhappy relationships all have one thing in common: they're all about "me".

David Michie

#88. Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

Alexander Pushkin

#89. Fulfillment of Central Committee directives became Stalin's mantra, and suspicion of non-fulfillment, his obsession.

Stephen Kotkin

#90. Never much of a fantasy fan, I knew one thing for certain: Odell Greenry loved Precious every bit as much as Gollum loved his "precious." And while both objects of obsession could be possessed neither could be mastered.

Mandy Broughton

#91. Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up doors to their soul that might otherwise remain shut tight.

Vince Aletti

#92. It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.

Alice Neel

#93. 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?

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#94. A disease-free body, quiver-free breath, stress-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, obsession-free memory, ego that includes all, and soul which is free from sorrow is the birthright of every human being.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#95. The sources and research I use for my inspiration aren't your typical sci-fi subjects, but it's really driven by obsession and personal anxiety more than trying to take up the sword and do what's right.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#96. I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

Taylor Swift

#97. Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.

Carl Honore

#98. Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

Mark Cuban

#99. All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.

Mary Roach

#100. What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

Napoleon Hill