Beneath the quiet equanimity, the simmering obsessions.

OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus…

— Ambrose Bierce

“His obsessions don’t manifest themselves physically, but they certainly lay other species of snares and traps in hidden corners of his mind. They lasso…

— Grant Ginder

“For careers you say you went to be remembered for your art Your obsessions get you known throughout the school for being strange Making…

— Belle & Sebastian

“The writer’s obsessions are twofold. First, communicate their thoughts onto paper with a great degree of precision in order accurately to express everything that…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them.

— William Gibson

“Soon enough, we are all going to leave this earth for good. The thought of this alone should make us love deeply, and live…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

People never cease to project on to God their individual and collective obsessions, so that they can appropriate and make use of him. But…

— Olivier Clement

“How much of our lives is spent in reverie, in wishing for what cannot be, in regretting what might have been avoided. These obsessions…

— David K. Reynolds

“Finally, Luther, Bunyan, and Thérèse all developed mature religious philosophies that differed from those of their communities because (from a psychiatric standpoint) each needed…

— Ian Osborn

“Peeves are like that: my peeves are law, yours are unhealthy obsessions.”

— Robert Lane Greene

One of my pet peeves, one of my obsessions, is litter.

— Amy Wax

Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

— Pamela Stephenson

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

— Emile M. Cioran

For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are,…

— Jess Walter

There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of…

— Leni Zumas