Obsessions Quotes

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

True love is not in possessions or obsessions, it is in appreciation.

~ Debasish Mridha

Cutting down a wall, the wall sawyer could feel the tension in a home ease and something windy rush in circles round her feet. It was addictive, each a sweet victory of art. The tumbling motion of a falling wall was like a volcanic eruption fading into a mountain of roses. The wall sawyer felt a loving animosity toward walls. “You must pay attention to your obsessions, where life and love intersect,” she told the little queen. 

~ Meia Geddes

Mind hates to seep in delusion soaking faintly discolored obsession.

~ Munia Khan

Our thoughts shape us. We become our obsessions. Our thoughts can enslave us or save us.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Obsessions are the only things that matter.

~ Patricia Highsmith

If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.

~ Munia Khan

I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

~ Charles Dickens

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

~ Andres Serrano

A bird cannot love freely when caged.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

There are, of course, the people who revolve around themselves--but I agree with you, she's not one of that kind. She's totally uninterested in herself. And yet she's got a strong character--there must be something. I thought at first it was her art--but it isn't. I've never met anyone so detached from life. That's dangerous.''Dangerous? What do you mean?''Well, you see--it must mean an obsession of some kind, and obsessions are always dangerous.

~ Agatha Christie

I would fight of course. Oh, I would fight. Better destroy everything than surrender her.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

You must be careful. There are things that should never be given up. You must persevere.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Many of us learned that keeping busy…kept us at a distance from our feelings...Some of us took the ways we busied ourselves—becoming overachievers & workaholics—as self esteem…But whenever our inner feeling did not match our outer surface, we were doing ourselves a disservice…If stopping to rest meant being barraged with this discrepancy, no wonder we were reluctant to cease our obsessive activity.

~ Maureen Brady

Let go into His arms untill you find yourself obsessed with things devine

~ John Crowder

I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it’s practice for sociopaths.

~ Lisa Scottoline