A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that. — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters. — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
“Loved with obsessive devotion, hated with barely controlled fury.” — Heather McCollum Copy Share Image
Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band. — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The societal obsession with appearance is definitely something that weighs on your mind as a model. — Tess Holliday Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the way, I forgot why I'm doing this. I want to be bigger. I want to be better. I want… — gian andrea Copy Share Image
I'm just a huge fan of smells, first of all. I have a bit of an obsession with smells. — Jessica Stroup Copy Share Image
Each obsession is a knot in your being. Once it is opened, great energy is released — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Language stops being a tool; it becomes a map, not to truth but to the person who wrote it.” — Arabella Sveinsdottir Copy Share Image
The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“...the angel in man-- has also been my own life-long obsession. In a sense I believe it has always been the problem… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Most of us can manage no more than a narrow little obsession with a particular human who we mistakenly imagine can satisfy… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“Create something beautiful every day. Value each day as special and unique. Your obsession with past failures or future desires robs you… — Sean Starr Copy Share Image
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a moral person, but I'm… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“As Edna walked along the street she was thinking of Robert. She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
You can cruise the world's millions of omega-3 Web sites without encountering any reflections about where these prized fatty acids are coming… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Every book presents its own specific challenges, or should, and you're right that this one has a preoccupation with uncertainty. In this,… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
“I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
