The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.
People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back.
'Twin Peaks' fans, it's a hardcore group of people.
The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.
When people are fanatical about something, it's contagious.
