Obsessive Quotes

188 Obsessive quotes by 175 unique authors

I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day. — Felicia Day
I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so… — Callum Keith Rennie
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is… — Anne Lamott
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so… — Martha Gellhorn
Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get… — David Foster Wallace
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions… — Sam Savage
For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one… — Donna Tartt
Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to… — Jonathan Lethem
I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. — Anne Lamott
It is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There aren’t too many of those.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in… — Alex Garland
There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized! — Eric Jerome Dickey
Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art — Susan Sontag
At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of… — Bill Bryson
I had taken the photograph from afar (distance being the basic glitch in our relationship), using my Nikon and zoom lens while hiding behind a… — Joan Bauer
Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched… — Laurie R. King
Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term, meaning… — Nikki Gemmell
...hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced… — David Foster Wallace
It shall be my pleasure to remedy it. First, it is not your strength or your speed that draws me. It's your...everything. Your laugh, your… — Gena Showalter
I just want to write. It's like once I get those obsessive thoughts out of my head, once they're written down, they're somehow set free… — Susane Colasanti
Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion. — Judith McNaught
Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an obsessive one, in fact. If it’s spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and… — Maureen Johnson
I swayed into him, drawn to his obsessive and insatiable raw need for me, which reflected the depth of my need for him — Sylvia Day

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