Obsession Quotes

667 quotes by 568 authors

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse. — Juliana Hatfield
In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age… — John Leo
What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased… — Emile M. Cioran
Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide… — Andre Gide
Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to… — John Steinbeck
Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us. — Wendell Berry
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. — Jean Racine
This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the… — Henry Mintzberg
I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise… — Leonard Cohen
I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it. — Miuccia Prada
The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't… — Nikki Reed
The danger to power is obsession - power junkies. You need a very strong mind and humor to balance yourself. If you don't, you will… — Frederick Lenz
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them. — Scarlett Thomas
What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far. — Leon Wieseltier
I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession for 2013. — Shay Mitchell
I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession. — Vanessa Marano
I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter… — Mary Archer
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… — Annie Baker
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… — Julianna Baggott
I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top. — Downtown Julie Brown

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