Unhealthy Obsession Quotes

• I'm not leaving until you tell me why you followed me. I know I'm a fascinating guy, but this is starting to feel like an unhealthy obsession.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Guy, Leaving, Obsession

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2014). “Hush, Hush Parts 1 & 2: includes Hush, Hush and Crescendo”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand the attraction of searching for hidden treasure amongst rows of dusty shelves or you don't; it's a passion, bordering on a spiritual illness, which cannot be explained to the unaffected.

  Kathleen Tessaro

  Spiritual, Husband, Passion

  Kathleen Tessaro (2013). “Elegance and Innocence: 2-Book Collection”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

  Carl Jung

  Second Chance, Thoughtful, Shrinking

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.114, Psychology Press

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• Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.

  Annie Lennox

  People, Want, Sake

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• I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Bisexual, Thinking, Dreamer

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• I'm a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I'm usually sick when I'm there.

  Grimes

  Sick, Cold, Montreal

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• I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company.

  Leonard Lauder

  Bisexual, Thinking, Gender And Sexuality

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• I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

  David Tennant

  Thinking, Enthusiasm, Geek

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• She winced, knowing what was to come, "Calpurnia." She closed her eyes again, embarrassed by the extravagant name - a name with which no one but a helplessly romantic mother with an unhealthy obsession with Shakespeare would have considered saddling a child.

  Sarah MacLean

  Mother, Children, Eye

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• That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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