Obsession Quotes
667 quotes by 568 authors
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I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all…
— Rachel Zoe
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Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios or shot in…
— Anurag Kashyap
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We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.
— Jeffrey McDaniel
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Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope…
— Margaret Weis
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I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
— Margaret Atwood
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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is…
— William Shakespeare
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Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
— Boyd K. Packer
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I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong.…
— Jeanette Winterson
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A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.
— Emile M. Cioran
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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are,…
— Kim Addonizio
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Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in…
— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing…
— Martin Amis
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Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses.…
— Denis Johnson
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We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford. "..." "And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They…
— Douglas Adams
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I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others,…
— Laurie R. King
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The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise.…
— Philip Roth
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We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.
— Douglas Adams
Who Wrote These Obsession Quotes
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