Fear Quote by Ian Osborn

“From a psychological perspective, no Christian construct in Luther’s time was as specifically therapeutic for obsessions and compulsions as that which he discovered. Only…

— Ian Osborn

“Books have a curious effect on those with certain predispositions to fall into obsession.”

— Kane X. Faucher

“I was also aware of three other historically important Christians whose apparently obsessive-compulsive symptoms had become a source of latter-day psychiatric speculation. They were…

— Ian Osborn

“MAGICAL obsession is that state when the mind is illuminated by sub-conscious activity evoked voluntarily by formula at our own time, etc., for inspiration.…

— Austin Osman, Spare

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

“If there was obsession here—a dominant persistent desire—then it was the desire to lose ourselves in one another. The only problem is that one…

— Ella Frank

It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject…

— Laura Mullen

“To indulge in fear thoughts constantly and to engage your mind constantly with negative thoughts result in abnormal fear, obsessions, and complexes. To engage…

— Anonymous

“The only way to cure an obsession is to become obsessed with something else.”

— Leah Raeder

“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

“Good writing arises out of obsession. With obsession there is emotional depth and a certain weight and gravity to the language and story. Without…

— Fred Arroyo

“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