Obsessed

Famous quotes containing the word obsessed:

    If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little—somebody who is obsessed by Making.
    —E.E. (Edward Estlin)

    He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
    Elias Canetti (b. 1905)

    It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times—the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie—seem attractive by comparison.
    Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)