Quotes About Compulsion

No director wants to make films with stars. It is a compulsion for them.

I'm compulsive.

I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that.

I am a compulsive writer.

I've nothing against schools! I'm against compulsory schooling.

Collections collect collectors. It doesn't work the other way around. A certain object misses its own kind and communicates that to some person who surrounds it with rhyming items; these become at first a quorum, then a selective, addictive madness.

A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like 'I'm happy! I swear!' I'm not buying it.

I have a problem with sweets. I have an inability to eat a just little bit. It's almost like I can't even enjoy chocolate anymore - I have to stuff it into my brain, cram it into my ears.

I'm an addictive person. If I open a bag of sweets, I won't just eat one or two, I'll eat the lot. If I go and play on my computer, it won't be just for an hour, it'll be for five hours.

Some things take hold of you. Invade you. Own you. You want to be free of them, but you never will be.

Oddly enough, there's no name in the DSM for the compulsion to diagnose people.

Any time you surrender a negative, accusatory, compulsive, or self-serving thought, word, or behavior, the Buddhists describe this as "dying"! Power, self-image, and control do not give up without a fight, and this is first of all true inside of our minds, where the illusions begin.

There was probably some kind of anti-compulsive psychiatric medication liberally added to this trucked-in gross of cookies so that people like me, who could not stop eating the cookies once they were offered, would not continuously sneak down to the lobby in the soul-slaughtering hours between two and four a.m. to steal six at a time, finishing most of them before getting back to the room.

I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter won't let you go. It's not enough to write simply because you think it would be neat to be published. You have to be compelled to write. If you're not, nothing else that you do matters.

The thought of him was a smoky cloud from hell that moved and crept in her head.

For they found they became oddly uncomfortable whenever the topic was broached, and before long an understanding had grown between them, in the silent way understandings do between a husband and wife of many years, to avoid the subject as much as possible. I say "as much as possible," for there appeared at times to be a need—a compulsion, you might say—to which one or the other would have to yield.

Power is the recognition of necessity.

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.

Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people.

Mostly, I like to use my writing to fuck shit up. And I like to teach my writing students how to use some of the same queer rhetorical strategies in their writing. Witnessing them experience, for themselves, where the compulsion to fuck shit up comes from is exciting and, at times, transformative.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

There is no virtue like necessity.

The deep of night is crept upon our talk,And nature must obey necessity.

Give you a reason on compulsion! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.