Quotes About Fixation

Tell your mom he said, 'Sibelius.' It's all he thinks about. I mean going there," she added.

My favorite episode is where the guy has a relationship with his car. An intimate and sexual and emotional relationship with his car.

Time and again human consciousness fixates, and slams the door on its greatest gift, the open-endedness of infinite possibility. As a result we do not experience reality but merely our concept of it.

Youre like my asthma, you take my breath away. Like dandruff; I cant get you off my head. Like my car, you drive me crazy. Like dentures, I cant smile without you.

Whenever I try to think of perfection, I come up blank. And I end up repeating your name mentally, over and over again.

Ever since I've met you, no one else is worth thinking about.

But hadn't it always been generally accepted that a policeman's lot was riskier and tougher and less well paid than any other? The answer was painfully simple. Yes, but only because no other professional group suffered from such role fixation or dramatized its daily life to the same degree as did the police.

My brain loves obsessions. If it can make me hate myself, then it's all the better.

her [Albertine's] intense and velvety gaze fastened itself, glued itself to the passer-by, so adhesive, so corrosive, that you felt that, in withdrawing, it must tear away the skin.

We reason, that is, our mind wanders, each time our courage fails to force us to pursue an intuition through all the successive stages which end in its fixation, in the expression of its own reality.

It is such a great moment of liberation when you learn to forgive yourself, let the burden go, and walk out into a new path of promise and possibility. Self-compassion is a wonderful gift to give yourself. You should never reduce the mystery and expanse of your presence to a haunted fixation with something you did or did not do.

And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.

His attention seemed tied to her face by a taut string.

As is usually true of a man of one idea, he became obsessed.

Without Obsession, Life Is Nothing

La vida no vale nada si no tienes una obsesión.

You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

I don't think of you as a crush anymore...you're more like a bad habit that I can't shake.

since she and Marcus and her mother left, she's been close to obsessed with wanting

an obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

Maybe I can stalk you again sometime." "Absolutely.

I love to stalk. I love to stalk you real, real good. I took your name home after our date and we had the best Google session of my life.