Quotes About Fixation

All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.

The strongest man is always the man of one idea. Devoting to it all his energy, his will, his intelligence, his nervous tension, he often becomes irresistible. Mary Baker was one of these exemplars among monomaniacs, for from 1862 onwards she possessed, or rather was possessed by, one idea and one only.

Les monomaniques de tout poil, les gens qui sont possédés par une seule idée m'ont toujours spécialement intrigué, car plus un esprit se limite, plus il touche par ailleurs à l'infini.

Monomaniacs of any kind, those people fixated by a single idea, have been a source of fascination for me my whole life, for the more a man limits his field of vision, the closer he is, conversely, to the infinite; those very people who seem so remote from the world construct with their own unique material, termite-like, a remarkable and completely unique shorthand for the world itself.

Todo lo que de extraordinario y más poderodo se produce en nuestra existencia se logra sólo a través de una monomanía sublime, sagradamente emparentada con la locura

didn't move his eyes from the word even as

Obsession is just a variety of addiction.

But she kept saying how brilliant he was. And he's all she talked about. And I fell in love with the image my cousin had of Mokund Thapa. I wanted to be like Mokund Thapa. One

All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.

When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. It?s obsession at first sight.

In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.

...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.

I love when people become obsessed with Downton.

The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface. Love.

Once you start watching a television show that you love you can't stop watching it.

You're an addiction...my obsession...

I have one one type: Eva Lauren Tramell. That's it." I rolled my eyes. "Okay. Whatever.

You have a transportation fetish. I have a Gideon fetish. It's been weeks.

Aku selalu melihatmu, Angel. Sejak kau menemukanku, aku tidak melihat apapun selain dirimu

The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.

Tudo o que eu já lera sobre gente maluca havia se fixado no meu cérebro, enquanto o resto evaporou.

An admirer of female beauty, if not essentially snared by it, he feasted briefly on two smouldering blue coals of eyes, fringed by coal-black lashes. Romulan's eyes, for that matter, and also for that matter, fixed upon Romulan.

All the male faces in the room turned to me as if they were flowers and I the sun.

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.