Quotes About Compulsion

There is no absurdity or contradiction to which passion may not lead a man. When love or hate takes control, reason must submit and then discover justifications for their folly.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

logic is useless in the face of obsession

and the only reason he came out at all, during that period after he left Frankie, when he wanted to go away and hide forever, was the crazy compulsion with which we resolved all the tangled impulses of our lives—the need to dance.

I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.

I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.

I can't throw anything away. Anything. I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.

I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.

Once I started to write, it was like all the lights came on. I was always making up stories in my head. I was a daydreamer. I didn't start as a child, but once I started, I couldn't stop. It was compulsive.

People have this impression that I'm a little kooky, but I'm actually very OCD. I love order and organization. I'm a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks, and it's hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list. Now that's OCD.

You know what. You're luring me in. You know I can't resist—

Moroi wields one of the four elements? Well, it turns out Lissa wields one no one even knew existed until recently: spirit. For years, we thought she just wasn't going to develop her magical abilities. Then strange things started happening around her. For example, all vampires have an ability called compulsion that lets them force their will on others. Strigoi have it really strongly.

I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this explains my compulsion to capture what I can with black ink on white paper." ("The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi")

Bad habits, we were collecting them like coins, and we knew how that worked: the more you get, the more you want.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Teachers must, I discovered, have a gift to teach and the compulsion to use it. And faith. Anything less won't carry you through.

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder it's a chemical disorder.

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.

The world is ruled by necessity: People change their behavior only if they have to. They will feel urgency only if their lives depend on it.

We should ask our commanders... Elayne trailed off. If there are any we trust not to be under Compulsion. There's only one, Mat said grimly, meeting her eyes. And he's telling you we are finished if we continue as we have. The earlier plan was a good enough one, but after what we lost today...Elayne, we're dead unless we choose one place to stand, gather together, and fight. One last toss of the dice.

She made me like her, and I cannot stop, and I hate her for it!" Said

I couldn't stop killing. It got easier each time." William Bonin

Dahmer later stated that he was strongly attracted to Sears and it is perhaps for this reason that he retained some of his body parts, the first time he had done so. He preserved Sears' skull and genitalia in acetone, storing them in his work locker before he moved them to his new apartment the following year.