Obsession Quotes

667 quotes by 568 authors

My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma.… — Christopher Bollen
My most favorite entrance music of all time it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song. — Joseph Bruce
There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way. — Geoffrey Gray
The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent. — Vera Farmiga
The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them. — W. Somerset Maugham
Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction,… — Gautama Buddha
The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts. — Vincent Van Gogh
The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history; to be remembered as a peacemaker; and to be accepted by the… — Henry A. Kissinger
I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out. — John Ruskin
Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and… — Paramahansa Yogananda
I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all… — Tori Amos
I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy. — Claude Monet
These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in… — Claude Monet
When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader. — Neil Gaiman
All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself… — Tennessee Williams
I didn't think it was fair to pretend to give of myself when I was so selfishly consumed with my own drives. — Jackie Mason
Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band. — Dave Matthews
Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy. — Sidney Lumet
A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those that occur when… — Peter Medawar

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