Ideas Quote by D. H. Lawrence

“ravished by dead words become obscene, and dead ideas become obsessions.”

— d.h. lawrence

Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's…

— J. G. Ballard

So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is…

— Anonymous

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust...

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

— Robert Bly

“I began to understand that the most worthwhile obsession is an obsession that is actually independent of the object of fixation. The object is…

— Pham Thi Hoai

In my own works I am an obsessionist. Though I write humorous music too, much of it has been obsessed by death and the…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth…

— Plutarch

“The most salacious stories—bones ground in a metal blender or torture-spike eye caps—had the power to disrupt people’s polite complacency about death. Rather than…

— Caitlin Doughty

“agical obsession is that state of mind when the mind is illuminated by sub-conscious activity evoked voluntarily by means of deliberate magical formula at…

— Austin Osman Spare

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be…

— Natalie Goldberg

At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans