Obsession Quotes

I don't understand people's obsessions.

— FKA twigs

“Everyone needed an obsession.”

— Abraham Verghese

“I am the scourge of God”

— Peter Ackroyd

“A lie of obsession is still a lie”

— Veronica Roth

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

My only sin was loving to much

— Anonymous

Obsessions turn people off.

— Grover Norquist

“Emily's got a chicken obsession.”

— Julie Cross

The last thing you want to get addicted to is someone.

— Aruho Marvin

“I am obsessed with not being obsessed with acquiring material things.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess.

— Drake

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

— Claude Monet

“the average life span of a romantic obsession is two years.”

— Gary Chapman

I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.

— Beverley Mitchell

“There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Love is a little bit more than desire, and a little bit less than obsession...

— Milana May

The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a…

— Andreï Makine

“We are so used to eating unhealthy food that we deem obsessed with health people who watch what they eat.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What I will miss the most about Guardiola? His obsession with the game and his knowledge, which makes you a better football…

— Arjen Robben

This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like that, and I don't want to…

— Marina and the Diamonds

The happiest people I know are those who have an obsession to the obedience of God.

— David Jeremiah

When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. It's obsession at first sight.

— Thomas Boswell

“Obsession is hard work and can only be performed at full speed for short periods of time.”

— Raymond L. Atkins

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

— Abigail Washburn

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and…

— Eugene Ionesco

I don't want to overplay the diary's significance, but it's a really helpful batting aid. It's not an obsession because I don't…

— Andrew Strauss

“Two words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I’ll play anything for you till you ask me…

— André Aciman

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities…

— Alberto Giacometti

Working in the shop has taught me how utterly ridiculous the female fear of knees is. It's a bloody knee. It's bone.…

— Dawn O'Porter

“Most of us can manage no more than a narrow little obsession with a particular human who we mistakenly imagine can satisfy…

— Rob Brezsny

“Create something beautiful every day. Value each day as special and unique. Your obsession with past failures or future desires robs you…

— Sean Starr

Every little crazy dream that I had has come true, and more. And I'm always mindful that this is not a birthright,…

— Jim Nantz

I think I'm fascinated with history and - just in general. And I'm always interested in how did - how did this…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

I believe everything is autobiographical. If it's not strictly about you, it's your peers, your obsessions, things that make you angry, or…

— Steve Toltz

When you're writing - when I'm writing anyway - I'm writing out of different kinds of preoccupations and obsessions, different forms of…

— W. S. Di Piero

“MAGICAL obsession is that state when the mind is illuminated by sub-conscious activity evoked voluntarily by formula at our own time, etc.,…

— Austin Osman, Spare

“What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me;…

— Herman Melville

I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an…

— Regina Spektor

We sometimes drive ourselves crazy with how our books will be "seen," when in fact we already know what they're about, and…

— Meg Wolitzer

I don't have too much interest in teaching other people how to get rich. And that isn't because I fear the competition…

— Charlie Munger