Quotes About Fixation

When a single object takes an exclusive place in our mind, when our being reaches toward this object in a sort of contracted tension, movement ceases within us and suffering finds its home in us.

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

Any attempt to fix it in place, to say for instance "this is the final word on what Moby Dick means" robs myth of its creativity and turns its ossified corpse into dogma.

I was ruled by two passions: clock and crime.

crazy," she'd said, "but I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better way to go insane.")

A moi. L'histoire d'une de mes folies.

I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't, they win.

A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life.

Without acute mania it may nevertheless occur that certain natures lack what I should describe as braking power. If you or I were to say, 'I hate someone—I wish he were dead,' the idea would pass from our minds as soon as the words were uttered. The brakes would work automatically. But, in some people the idea, or obsession, holds. They see nothing but the immediate gratification of the idea formed.

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...

wanted to be like her, and I would stop at nothing. Nothing at all, including sneaking into her closet and wearing her clothes like some tiny, creepy serial killer.

The world is full of men with strange obsessions who will stop at nothing to get what they want.

Such was the nature of obsessions: no quarter given for the human cost.

I've got a pretty addictive personality.

We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

Looking at someone who is looking at you was a drug as strong as any other.

Someone ought to glue his shoes to the floor to keep him where he

You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.

I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.

I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.

Who knew we had all this O.C.D. in the world? Well actually, I suppose it's pretty obvious. It explains Sudoku, doesn't it?