Quotes About Obsessions

The theatre will never find itself again except by furnishing the spectator with the truthful precipitates of dreams, in which his taste for crime, his erotic obsessions, his savagery, his chimeras, his utopian sense of life and matter, even his cannibalism, pour out on a level not counterfeit and illusory, but interior. […] If theatre wants to find itself needed once more, it must present everything in love, crime, war and madness.

When any choice is pursued to an extreme, it penalizes itself, in that it exposes the individual to the dangers accompanying any one exclusive life-interest which may always prove inadequate.

Sin embargo, le pregunté si me encontraba inteligente. Sí, ciertamente, pero la inteligencia no es una facultad separada; cuando doy vueltas en mis obsesiones mi inteligencia ya no está disponible.

Eu nu am idei ci obsesii. Idei poate avea oricine. Nimeni nu s-a pr?bu?it din cauza ideilor.

În somn uiÈ›i drama vieÈ›ii tale, uiÈ›i complicaÈ›iile È™i obsesiile aÈ™a încât fiecare deÈ™teptare este un început nou de via??, este o speran?? nou?. ViaÈ›a p?streaz? astfel o discontinuitate pl?cut? care d? impresia unei continue regener?ri a unei renaÈ™teri permanente.

I have no ideas, only obsessions. Anybody can have ideas. Ideas have never caused anybody's downfall.

Gripat. Am r?mas în pat toat? ziua. Revenirea unor vechi obsesii, a sentimentului c? pentru mine nimic nu e posibil. Oriunde m? duc, bolile mele m? însoÅ£esc. E datul capital al existenÅ£ei mele. S-ar spune chiar c? aceste boli m? preced?, c? preg?tesc terenul ca s? pot fi nefericit f?r? dificultate, f?r? obstacole. Chiar ÅŸi în Paradis de m-aÅŸ duce, fenomenul s-ar repeta ineluctabil.

Some have misfortunes; others, obsessions. Which are worse off?

The human mind, then, one might have supposed, was at last about to deliver itself from all the divine obsessions. Not at all. The divine falsehood upon which humanity had been feeding for eighteen centuries (speaking of Christianity only) was once more to show itself more powerful than human truth.

Gambling, beer and football filled the horizons of their minds.

The history of cosmic theories, in particular, may without exaggeration be called a history of collective obsessions and controlled schizophrenias; and the manner in which some of the most important individual discoveries were arrived at reminds one more of a sleepwalker's performance than an electronic's brain.

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

I don't really like the word 'hobbies.'

I have hobbies.

Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.

I have too many psycho superstitions.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

His failure hurt too badly for that. It was a bad equation. Best erase it and try a new one. If adults could put aside their obsessions with such firmness, the world would undoubtedly be a better place. Robertson Davies does not say that in his Deptford Trilogy ... but he strongly hints at it.

Dulles had two lifelong obsessions: fighting Communism and protecting the rights of multinational corporations.

With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.

Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need to look for ways to express them that are different. The main reason for doing that is not to bore yourself, and obviously, I don't want to bore readers.

When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.