Quotes with obsession

Quotes 21 till 27 of 27.

  • Philip Roth The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Iris Murdoch The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • George Sand The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Anne Tyler Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Douglas Adams We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Abdul Kalam Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Napoleon Hill Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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