Obsession Quotes

“A true lover is constantly and without intermission possessed by the thought of his beloved.”

“He who is tortured by an excess of love usually does not love.”

“Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone.”

“Obsession is the spring of poetry.”

“He who has a fixed idea is either a genius or a madman.”

“I'm just an ordinary person who has an obsession.”

“What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”

“A creator is not a being who works for the pleasure of it. A creator is a being who is possessed.”

“I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.”

“This means something. This is important.”

“I think about you. That's all I do, all the time. Does that not show?”

“There are certain themes that I'm obsessed with.”

“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”

“Obsession is a blade that cuts you. It's the price of greatness. It's the price of everything.”

“My books are about the obsessive quest for a woman.”

“Why are we, as a nation, so obsessed with sex? It's not as if it's a recent invention.”

“I was so in love with him I couldn't see anything else.”

“You have to be obsessed. You have to be completely obsessed with what you are doing.”

“It’s one thing to be a perfectionist, it’s another to be obsessive.”

“I was for many years a martyr to the disease of invention.”