Quotes About Obsession

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase 'to live like men.

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed. Or so it is with me. Thus my writing life consists of spells of languor alternating with fits and spasms of mad typing. At all times, though, I keep a journal, a record book, and most everything begins in the form of notes scribbled down on the pages of that journal.

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.

Modern men and women are obsessed with the sexual; it is the only realm of primordial adventure still left to most of us. Like apes in a zoo, we spend our energies on the one field of play remaining; human lives otherwise are pretty well caged in by the walls, bars, chains, and locked gates of our industrial culture.

we see that it's only the old numbers game again, the monomania of small and very simple minds in the grip of an obsession. They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again. They would never understand that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent. Curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas. —Albert Einstein

Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.

It was beauty killed the beast.

I'm a curling addict - I need a hit, and I want to get stoned!

You know you're a skydiver when you buy anything you calculate how many skydives it will cost.

Every time I look at the news, I come one step close to becoming one of those Bond villains who is intent on destroying the world.

Obsessively hating something is still obsessing. Do not forget what happens when you stare into the abyss.

esse homem que morava numa garrafa de uísque como os barcos dos colecionadores

Othello goes through in his mind before he develops jealousy and anger

There is a curious mental stimulus to a good but stupid woman in a bad man's badness. If she has a touch of the reformer in her, as most good women have, she soon becomes obsessed with the futile desire to save him from himself. And in seven cases out of ten her first step in doing so is to descend to his level. "Not

If only Nixon could go to China, only Obama can end the self-memorialization obsession that is presidential libraries - by not building such a shrine.

ibas a ser ejecutado dentro de una semana, tu mente se centraría exclusivamente en ello, y no podrías pensar en otra cosa.

Y qué es un apego? Es un estado emocional de vinculación compulsiva a una cosa o persona determinada, originado por la creencia de que sin esa cosa o persona

He lingers over images of Marie-Laure—her hands, her hair—even as he worries that to concentrate on them too long is to risk wearing them out.

But he didn't have language for what he really wanted to say; he couldn't explain how her wildness that day, on the road, had thrilled him as much as it terrified him. He couldn't tell her that at night, sweating in the folds of his mosquito net, he had begun to recite her name over and over, as if it were a spell that might summon her into his room.

What he wants is hard to say, but when he wants it, he wants it badly.

There were books everywhere, hundreds of them on shelves that had been designed to fit into every nook and cranny, and it goes without saying that anyone who collects books can't be all bad.

It's none of my business, but sometimes you can spend so much time chasing something that you lose everything else while you're about it.

I warned you that danger can become a drug and it seems to me that in your case, it's too late. You're already hooked.