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Quotes About Obsession

And this brought forth a dream and soon enough/ This dream itself had all my thought and love
~ Unknown
Women are crazy about pets. They're just crazy. Pets have nothing to do with it.
~ W.C. Fields
Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.
~ Douglas McCulloh
You wanted to drown in a woman. Here's your chance. Drown in her blood" ~Violence(Maddox)
~ Gena Showalter
I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.
~ Liya Kebede
One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the chance to read as much as you like on a pet subject - so much that you could easily bore your friends senseless on the topic.
~ Deanna Raybourn
A girl could be sitting on her computer, trying to get noticed by me, and not knowing she's the future Mrs. Justin Bieber.
~ Justin Bieber
I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.
~ Douglas Adams
I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically unwell if I'm not doing it.
~ Russell Hoban
Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It's about not being able to stop at all.
~ Octavia Butler
Entrepreneurs need to be positive. Always. Entrepreneurs need to be brave, often. And lastly, entrepreneurs need to be obsessed.
~ Ronnie Apteker
It's easier to cool down a fanatic than to warm up a corpse.
~ Michael L. Brown
I want to be a pretty corpse.
~ Eva Braun
Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.
~ Kenneth Branagh
Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.
~ Franz Kafka
The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.
~ Georges Bataille
I'll stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead.
~ Bob Dylan
I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.
~ Steven Morrissey
Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.
~ T. S. Eliot
I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.
~ Tori Amos
Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.
~ Alan Ball
Respetar cuanto uno ha de respetar; no protestar por nada; no sufrir jamás la molestia de no tener confianza en sí mismo; no enredarse jamás en la obsesión ni ser torturado por la incapacidad, envenenado por el resentimiento, impulsado por la cólera…
~ Philip Roth
To respect everything one is supposed to respect; to protest nothing; never to be inconvenienced by self-distrust; never to be enmeshed in obsession, tortured by incapacity, poisoned by resentment, driven by anger . . . life just unraveling for the Swede like a fluffy ball of yarn.
~ Philip Roth
The mad desire to obliterate all! The mad desire to save all!
~ Philip Roth