Samuel Johnson Quotes

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.

There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.

I'll let myself obsess over things.

Nothing like falling in love with a dead actress to prove your sanity.

When I get something in my head, it's hard for me to just let it go.

When he was on the streets, I was consumed with Nic. I was obsessed with him to the point that I could barely function.

I become mad when I work. It's like a fever that grows; I don't need to choose just one thing.

It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad.

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.

All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.

Amor deliria nervosa: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. Symptom number twelve.

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.