quotations about obsession
Obsessions are psychological rituals.
CATHAL O'BRIAN
Powerful Mind Through Self-Hypnosis
We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.
WALLACE STEVENS
"The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words", The Necessary Angel
Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it--it's almost as if the obsessed one has been taken over by a replica, a pod, a facsimile of the rational person. When one is in the grip of an obsession, everything else--children, regular meals, sleep, work--is swept away. The entire being is one yearning, frothing bath of desire. It's the dirty trick of obsession that getting its way--spending time with the object of desire, having sex with the object of desire--doesn't lessen the obsession, but increases it. Although an addict, while obsessed, truly believes that being with the object of the obsession will cure the obsession, the opposite is true. When an alcoholic promises that all he needs is one last bender to achieve satisfaction, he's chasing a chimera.
SUSAN CHEEVER
Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction
I'm often called obsessive. I don't think I am ... but I agree that when I decide to go in one direction I really go in that direction.
NICHOLSON BAKER
"a life in writing", The Guardian, February 18, 2009
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
At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
I don't believe outstandingly beautiful and charismatic women create obsession in what would otherwise be normal men, but rather they attract the weirdos and the stalkers; flames in the darkness that these disturbing people inhabit, unwittingly drawing them closer until they extinguish the very flame they were drawn to.
ROSAMUND LUPTON
Sister
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
J. K. ROWLING
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
These obsessions are really only ways for us to mask what we need to be feeling inside and don't know how to feel.
GARY MENDIOLA
Afraid of God
An obsession is an idea which you must get out of your mind if you are not to go out of your mind.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Anything that inspires addiction or obsession - substances, entertainment, beauty, secrecy -- is dangerous in that it can lead to isolation, self-absorption, and disconnection, to paralyzed stasis: an immobility that gathers like a force.
GREG CARLISLE
Elegant Complexity
Obsession is a pair of blinders, and Beaumont wore his tightly.
MARY ROACH
Gulp
Romantic obsession is like a cataclysm breaking up the empty landscape. Like a strange exotic plant, it grows in arid soil.
ROSEMARY SULLIVAN
Labyrinth of Desire
Obsessions are essentially secondary to the depression, and usually clear up when the depression lifts.
PADMAL DE SILVA
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Facts