Obsessions Quotes

98 quotes by 91 authors

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
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
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
To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions. — Charles Simic
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most… — Franz Kafka
People see everything through the lens of their obsessions. — Francine Prose
She emptied herself of Fabio and of herself, of all the useless efforts she had made to get where she was and find nothing there.… — Paolo Giordano
With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious. — Steve Martin
Lish tried to swear--which is always funny, because the computer won't translate it. It went something like this: "Bleep stupid bleep bleep faeries and their… — Kiersten White
People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege… — Iris Murdoch
In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies. — Stephen King
How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions. — D. H. Lawrence
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions:… — Eugene Ionesco
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they canâ€™t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released. — Natalie Goldberg
Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions. — Martin Scorsese
We''re all misfits here,â€ he says, almost proudly. â€œThat's why I started this squat, after all. Â For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere… — Terri Windling
It's about living in the moment and appreciating the smallest things. Surrounding yourself with the things that inspire you and letting go of the obsessions… — Gretchen Rubin
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most… — Anne Rice
I love you still, but with your death I succumbed to a kind of infatuation. I convinced myself that what you and I had, so… — Steven Erikson

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