Quotes about Obsessions

"You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed."
-John Irving

"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace."
-Eugene O'neill

"The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all."
-John Updike

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."
-Franz Kafka

"He seems to have gone to his icebox, pulled out all the cold obsessions, mixed them in a bowl, beat too lightly and baked too long."
-John Leonard

"Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out."
-Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

"The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life."
-Mary Ellen Mark

"It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions."
-Robert Bly