How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?
Obsessed
Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We’re going on a downward spiral.
No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.
Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.
I’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.
It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother with children. It is definitely true that I would not have written about the Civil War without having a little guy who was obsessed with it.