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Obsessive Quotes (page 11)

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? Jerry Seinfeld
George McGovern quote: "But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to..."
But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors. George McGovern
Julia Cameron quote: "Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do..."
Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead. Julia Cameron
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 released. Natalie Goldberg
Paulo Coelho quote: "I don't know why we human beings are so obsessed with making..."
I don't know why we human beings are so obsessed with making rules about everything. Paulo Coelho
It's always the same old problem: how to find ourselves in the great yammering of ego and tragedy and discomfort and obsession with everyone else's destinies. Anne Lamott
Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor Isabel Meredith. This was what love ought to be like: playful and passionate and teasing, and dangerous, too, with sharp intelligence in it. Philip Pullman
Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and sob probes, and you would mark them. Women--and they can be wives, lovers, gaunt muses, fat nurses, obsessions, devourers, exes, nemeses--will wake and turn to these men and ask, with female need-to-know, "What is it?" And the men will say, "Nothing. No it isn't anything really. Just sad dreams. Martin Amis
No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy Allen Ginsberg
John Steinbeck quote: "And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became..."
And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed. John Steinbeck
Our obsession with birth, by shifting us to a point before our past, robs us of our pleasure in the future, in the present, and even in the past. Emile M. Cioran
When I was twelve I was obsessed. Everything was sex. Latin was sex. The dictionary fell open at 'meretrix', a harlot. You could feel the mystery coming off the word like musk. 'Meretrix'! This was none of your mensa-a-table, this was a flash from a forbidden planet, and it was everywhere. History was sex, French was sex, art was sex, the Bible, poetry, penfriends, games, music, everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but not really sex, not the one which was secret and... Tom Stoppard
For those in whom a mere reaction has thus become an obsession, I do seriously recommend the imaginative effort of conceiving the Twelve Apostles as Chinamen. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Margaret Atwood quote: "I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones..."
I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea. Margaret Atwood
If our research leads us to a result that reduces religion to the status of a neurosis of mankind and explains it's grandiose powers in the same way as we sould neurotic obsession in our individual patients, then we may be sure we shall incur in this country the greatest resentment of the powers that be. Sigmund Freud

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