Obsession Quotes

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.

Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

What is it with this American booty culture? It seems to me to be a form of obsession.

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.

The outside world holds no interest for me without you." -Edward

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential.

Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways

Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people.

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

I think I have mental problems, I think I have like weird obsessions with things, really annoying.

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.

I'm proud of Russia, that's true. And we have something to be proud of, but we do not have any obsession with being a superpower in the international arena.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

Obsessions turn people off.

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.

I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.

From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace

It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.

We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

Our obsession is how we can use technology to reach our big goals, first peace, which will allow us more equality and better education.

You start living for the obsession alone ... You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you're enjoying the road or not.

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.