Quotes About Compulsion

Perversion interests me most and is my guiding darkness.

We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.

Et plus je l'ignorais, plus je tombais amoureuse de lui. C'était exactement comme je te disais tout à l'heure, comme une maladie. Tu sais comment ça se passe... Tu éternues. Une fois. Deux fois. Tu frissonnes et voilà. C'est trop tard. Le mal est fait. Là, c'était la même chose : j'étais prise, j'étais fichue.

Ich hatte Lust auf eine Zigarette. Es war bescheuert, ich hatte vor Jahren aufgehört zu rauchen.Tja,aber so ist das Leben. Da beweist du eine fabelhafte Willenskraft, um dann eines Wintermorgens zu beschließen, daß du vier Kilometer durch die Kälte laufen willst, um eine Schachtel Zigaretten zu kaufen...

Quand je bois, je bois trop, quand je fume, je me bousille, quand j'aime, je perds la raison et quand je travaille, je me tue...Je ne sais rien faire normalement sereinement, je... - Et quand tu détestes? - Ça je sais pas... - Je croyais que tu me détestais, moi? - Pas encore, sourit-elle, pas encore...Tu verras quand ça arrivera...Tu verras la différence...

The loss of freedom, tyranny, abuse, hunger would all have been easier to bear if not for the compulsion to call them freedom, justice, the good of the people Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Lies, by their very nature partial and ephemeral, are revealed as lies when confronted with language's striving for truth. But here all the means of disclosure had been permanently confiscated by the police. —Aleksander Wat, My Century

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

It was like a disease. A Phoebe-Pace-inspired disease, this need to speak so much—to explain himself.

I can't help being a gorgeous fiend. It's just the card I drew.

They could not listen. They could not stop. What they did was the death dance. What they did would do them in.

There'll be no keeping Chickie from dancing, or dancing from Chickie. It will feed her and gnaw away at her, and in the end it will pull her away. For once a child has an obsession, she no longer has need of a mother

y yo siento el impulso irresistible de acercármele y, más amargo y doloroso aún, el impulso de seguir[la], (...) nace en mí como un anhelo y un mandato.

The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work, and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you, anyway.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

The fact that I like to buy inessential things to make myself feel better is neither a secret nor something I'm particularly proud of. And I know I'm not alone.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.

know, Mother. Doesn't everybody clean their venetian blinds with a Q-tip twice a day? Duh!

Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.

Tens vontade de comprar O que vês só porque o viste. Só a tenho de chorar Porque só compro o ser triste.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.