Quotes About Fixation

I'm sick of the images trapped in my headI'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead

If it doesn't sound insane, I would only talk about you and the only word which would come out of my mouth, will be your name.

Most feed their obsessions by trying to get rid of them.

While we have a highly unstable memory, a diary provides indelible facts recorded more or less immediately; it thus allows the fixation of an unrevised perception and enables us to later study events in their own context.

Drogo is obsessed and blinded by the possibility of an unlikely event;

Unable to sleep for the third night in a row, he continued to dwell obsessively on the circumstances of the ship's sinking. He could not get the creature out of his mind.

You're confusing boredom with obsession.

but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.

As long as we hold onto our own desires and remain fixated on having our way, we will be unable to see God, even if He were to stand right before our eyes. God, in His patient, sometimes painful mercy, allows us to hold our desires as tightly as we wish until we tire of the pain and loosen our grip. Meanwhile, He holds before us a divine alternative, one that offers great abundance in exchange for the trinkets we clutch with desperate resolve.

Margie Flynn was in my head like a bad cold, blurring everything. It was a new kind of loneliness, a hurt I couldn't stop picking at.

What is love, for God's sake, if not the most distilled obsession?

I swear. Everyone here gets so worked up over the most minute details. ~Mayuri Kurotsuchi

If they are all so obsessed with change they should begin by changing for dinner.

Real obsession, if you did it right, was the same intensity every single time, a kind of electrocution that kept your heart beating in time. It was so good.

I couldn't even see that woman because I have blinders on when you are around, and every single thought in my head is about you.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Some people should use a glue stick instead of ChapStick®.

No, I had a thing for his car.

I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.

Delusion is not just fantasy but compulsion.

When you don't become fixated on winning the prize or appearing successful, and instead pursue your passions, then you will discover the fulfillment that comes from living by instinct.

I like the way I can't keep my focus. I watch you talk, you didn't notice.