Obsessions Quotes

98 quotes by 91 authors

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. — Emile M. Cioran
The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with… — Lewis Mumford
Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity… — Emile M. Cioran
Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results -… — Denis Waitley
Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them. — Pamela Stephenson
Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. — Franz Kafka
I don't like Paradise, as they probably don't have obsessions there. — Alda Merini
The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in… — William J. Clinton
People never cease to project on to God their individual and collective obsessions, so that they can appropriate and make use of him. But they… — Olivier Clement
I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with… — Pablo Neruda
Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same… — Cookie Mueller
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers. — Catherine Deneuve
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. — Robert Bly
Weâ€™re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that… — Terri Windling
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After… — M. John Harrison
One of the best things Iâ€™ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into… — John Jeremiah Sullivan
Indigo has a purifying, stabilizing, cleansing effect when fear, repression, and obsessions have disturbed your mental body. Indigo food vibrations are: blackberries, blue plums, blueberries,… — Tae Yun Kim
Your desintation is a life of meaning, fulfillment, creativity and joy. A life free of fears, obsessions, compulsions, and addictions, without the insecurities others activates… — Gary Zukav
Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes… — Cornel West
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions... — Andres Serrano

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