Obsession Quotes

667 quotes by 568 authors

What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you… — Jerry Seinfeld
He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than… — W. Somerset Maugham
Girls have all the same parts, basically, and so much of how they look depends on the attitude, expectations, and obsessions of those who are… — Frank Portman
Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen… — Scott Westerfeld
Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor… — Philip Pullman
Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing… — Tom Waits
I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea. — Margaret Atwood
Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the… — Julio Cortazar
A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to… — Fumiko Enchi
i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness. — Michel de Montaigne
This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day… — Zadie Smith
And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger. — Ian Fleming
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas. — Albert Einstein
The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive. — Rick Riordan
Butch repositioned the Sox cap, and as his wrist passed by his nose, he got another whiff of himself. "Ah, V. . . listen, there… — J R Ward
To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions. — Charles Simic
Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in… — Sarah Dunant
All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession. — Mary Roach
Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order… — Walter Moers

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