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Quotes About Compulsion

Fools wear masks on mouths out of own choice by believing in the fake news stories & forged theories of virus and biggest duffers even inside their house; Sensible does not wear it mostly, but sometimes on roads out of compulsion only to avoid being harassed and fined.
~ Anuj Somany
Vaccination that can cure the health of the population requires neither publicity/promotion nor be forced upon them for sure; but if still coercion & compulsion done for inoculation, then the administration is headed by evils and ill & side-effects of injection are in store
~ Anuj Somany
There are all kinds of addictions, and I've got every single one. If you set me in front of anything, I will do it until I ram it into the ground and it's done working for me.
~ Andy Dick
I got caught up with gambling at the golf course, the backroom card games at the casinos with buddies there, and eventually betting on sporting events. I think it became a situation where I got consumed by it and loved every minute of it.
~ Tim Donaghy
The skin of the boy's neck tasted foul, bitter with ingrained filth. The hot pulse of blood laced the foulness, drawing the vampire on until the skin broke and fluid burst onto his tongue. Crystal sweetness. A ruby light that out-dazzled the battle flares, the two-edged ecstasy of feeding: a compulsion so strong that it almost sickened. Wrong to take pleasure in this death, impossible not to... The vampire closed his eyes in bliss as he drank, but the bitter taste remained.
~ Freda Warrington
There was no one--nothing else in the world--that had this unbelievable effect on him: thrilling electrification. But just as soon as he acknowledged this gift, he sought to destroy it.
~ Galt Niederhoffer
I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we, as a species, are scratching that itch, we're actually following an evolutionary compulsion that is wired into us. I think good things come of it.
~ Ron Howard
All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.
~ Jesse Eisenberg
The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.
~ James Stephens
The process is very gradual, you see. At first there's the tainted stage; they know what will eventually happen to them if they go on but they say, 'Oh God, don't do it to me do it again, please, please.'
~ Terence Fisher
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
~ Bernard Williams
Maybe compassion is compulsion, creativity is insanity. If this is so, then is craziness a good thing, the source of our humanity?
~ Rosie O'Donnell
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden".
~ Ruth Rendell
A?k muhakkak ki bir hastal?k... A??k oldu?umuzu ilk zamanlarda kendimizden bile saklamak istememiz zaten bunun bir hastal?k oldu?unu gösteriyor... Biz mütemadiyen: De?ilim, de?ilim!.. diyoruz. Ve onu ancak, kolumuzu k?m?ldatamayacak kadar bize hakim oldu?u zaman kabul ediyoruz.
~ Sabahattin Ali
With a little awareness, every human being can begin to transform habit into choice, compulsion into consciousness.
~ Sadhguru
It is time to stop the charade. There is only one way out of the spider's web. And it is the age-old journey from unawareness to awareness, from compulsion to consciousness.
~ Sadhguru
Years ago, a drug addict said something very profound to me. He said I didn't understand about addiction. His life was only about one thing: getting drugs. It simplified his life in that all the other things people have to think about, worry about, and deal with—he didn't. His life wasn't easy, but it was simple, cut down to what he could cope with. You will find this same attitude in people who try to reduce life to only one thing. This includes being obsessed about danger.
~ Marc MacYoung
11. When thou hast been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in a manner, quickly return to thyself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts; for thou wilt have more mastery over the harmony by continually recurring to it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
When thou hast been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in a manner, quickly return to thyself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts; for thou wilt have more mastery over the harmony by continually recurring to it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)
~ Marcus Aurelius
I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.
~ Margaret Atwood
Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it, and to bring something back out to the light.
~ Margaret Atwood
Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.
~ Margaret Atwood