Quotes About Preoccupation

They all lived so steeped in fear that the losses they had yet to suffer had already consumed them.

While repression stifles desire, addiction attaches desire, bonds and enslaves the energy of desire to certain specific behaviors, things, or people. These objects of attachment then become preoccupations and obsessions; they come to rule our lives. The

I might wish our Windthorn men were less obsessed with war, but I have to admit it keeps them busy.

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.

He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making one forget that most people living in the present are otherwise preoccupied, that for them omens often don't exist.

his silence he has indicated that he is willing. He hasn't the strength any more, the excess vitality, for an affair—its danger, its demand performances, the secrecy added like a filigree to your normal life, your gnawing preoccupation with it and with the constant threat of its being discovered and ended.

looked up. Benny was not reading any more. He was looking straight ahead. But he was not looking at anything. "What's the matter, Ben?" asked Mr. Alden.

Nothing apparently, disturbed the mans air of having his mind on something more important than you. You wanted to slap him.

It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

one of Satan's favorite strategies for impeding the spiritual growth and usefulness of Christians: get them to become preoccupied with their failures; from then on, his battle is won.

But as I remember it, he looked alternately bored and preoccupied throughout the meal, as if, while one part of him was drinking Bordeaux and cutting his food into bite-sized morsels, the other half was engaged with shepherding a herd of goats across a bone-dry plain.

I never knew you had such a shoulder fixation." "I do when they're attached to a body like that one.

From this time on, Drake became a preoccupation for the Spanish, who condemned him as a "Lutheran heretic

For good or bad, my preoccupation with death and the past had defined much of my life, and a long time ago I had made my separate peace with the world and abandoned any claim on reason or normalcy or the golden mean. Waylon Jennings said it many years ago: I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane.

I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.

I think everybody has something that they've been obsessed about in their lifetime.

People who are obsessed amuse me.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

Any obsession is dangerous.

For me, I was never really obsessed with Luke Cage. My obsession was Wolverine.