Nicolas Roeg Quotes

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

Any obsession is dangerous.

I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

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

When I am not playing, I suffer.

Most people have had that feeling of like, being obsessed with someone, and losing self control a bit, and that hopefully humanises addiction a bit.

Obsession can be a great thing or it can also destroy lives.

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

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

Addicts are hard workers.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

I just need to do Pac's work. I just need to. Maybe because I'm a recovering addict, I'm obsessed like that.

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) cannot be medicated. It is treatable only through therapy. The problem is therapy is rarely sought by the afflicted. It cannot be cured.

'Obsession' has a bad rap.

My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in every weeknight in the hope that he might get free and call me. It felt like I had a disease I didn't want to get rid of. I suppose that's a definition of obsession, yes.

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

When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else, very hard to see the larger picture of options that is your life, very hard to consider what else you might need or want or fear were you not so intently focused on one crushing passion. I sat in my room every night, with rare exceptions, for three and a half years.