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

“Obsessions are the only things that matter.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it’s practice for sociopaths.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“Our thoughts shape us. We become our obsessions. Our thoughts can enslave us or save us.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A bird cannot love freely when caged.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“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, Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse

“I would fight of course. Oh, I would fight. Better destroy everything than surrender her.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I have no ideas, only obsessions. Anybody can have ideas. Ideas have never caused anybody's downfall.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“Let go into His arms untill you find yourself obsessed with things devine”
― John Crowder, The Ecstasy of Loving God

“I'm too much the slave of my own obsessions and fascination.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“You were more than an obsession. You were more than a love. You were my life. And I do not know what to do without you.”
― Kit Rose

“The only man who is truly happy is a man who has an idée fixe. It takes up his every minute, fills any empty spaces in his thought, sneaks unexpected pleasures into his boredom, gives direction to his idle hours, again and again enlivens the stagnant waters of existence with a surging current.”
― Georges Rodenbach, The Bells of Bruges

“Jesus makes it clear that the way to God is the same as the way to a new childhood. The innocence that is reached through conscious choices. The Beatitudes offer me the simplest route for the journey home, back into the house of my Father. And along this route I will discover the joys of the second childhood: comfort, mercy, and an ever clearer vision of God. It's a place where I can live in freedom without obsessions and compulsions.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

“I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“You must be careful. There are things that should never be given up. You must persevere.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Silences of my days
Silences of my wanderings
Silences of my nights
Silences of my loneliness

Silences of my work
Silences of my insanity
Silences of my dreams
Silences of my craziness


Silences of my passions
Silences of my reading
Silences of my obsessions
Silences of my writing


Silences of my thoughts
Silences of my pondering
Silences of my emotions
Silences of my aching

Silences of my stares
Silences of my pining
Silences of my feelings
Silences of my longing

Silences where I truly live
My Silences
Leave me to my silences...”
― Avijeet Das

“Free Your Mind

Be mindful of negativity
Negative thoughts become obsessions
Obsessions become deep emotions
Emotions become painful
Pain becomes cancerous to the body
Free the mind from poison”
― Janet Autherine, Island Mindfulness: How to Use the Transformational Power of Mindfulness to Create an Abundant Life

“A writer is a sponge. He absorbs everything that flows in a liquid form: feelings, thoughts, emotions, pauses, desires, silences, addictions, aches, dreams, obsessions, and passions.”
― Avijeet Das

“When a person finds someone who makes all the negativity in their lives disappear, it's hard not to feed off that person.”
― Varity Crawford

“What I need is a task. Something to concentrate on, something that will distract me from all the whirling thoughts crowding my head.”
― Sylvia Mercedes, Entranced

“Being obsessed with money comes at a high price.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide

“Hello, I'm Stan and I'm a textaholic I am powerless over my thumbs”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Beyond being normal, our obsessions are positive, empowering and absolutely necessary.
What some may view as obsessive, odd, weird, abnormal and troublesome is a necessary part of our happiness. Our interests allow us to decompress, calm down, focus our energy, and gives us a reason to be excited about life - a purpose. An absence of obsessive interest leaves me feeling alone in the darkness.”
― Jeannie Davide-Rivera, Twirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed: Growing Up With Undiagnosed Autism

“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, The Little Queen

“Perverse obsessions
And it is only now
That I realize I am bleeding
Now no air now dead
And that it was your careful strike
That made it so”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“He still misses her in a way that talking about her, thinking about her, remains dangerous to indulge in - as an alcoholic can't think too much about how much she'd really like just one drink.”
― Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

“As I want to be most selfless, I find myself obsessed about being loved. Just when I do my utmost to accomplish a task well, I find myself questioning why others do not give themselves as I do. Wherever my virtuous self is, there also is the resentful complainer. I am totally unable to root out my resentments. They are so deeply anchored in the soil of my inner self that pulling them out seems like self-destruction. I cannot be reborn from below; that is, with my own strength, with my own mind, with my own psychological insights. I can only be healed from above, from where God reaches down.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

“Those who are obsessed with what their neighbors are doing behind the scenes will never achieve what they are supposed to do in the marketplace.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Qu’est-ce que l’amour, sinon une obsession ?”
― Charmaine Pauls, Diamonds are Forever

“If, on the one hand, religion brings with it obsessional restrictions, exactly as an individual obsessional neurosis does, on the other hand it comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but in amentia, in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion.
(The Future of an Illusion)”
― Sigmund Freud