Quotes About Compulsion

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it's true), they go to the movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands... and all the time those birds are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh.

A successful novel should interrupt the reader's life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

The palm of his hand was a dull red. Not a good sign. I jerk off left-handed, he thought, at least that's something.

I believe instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. Unless you're willing to take the pipe or eat the gun or take a long walk off a short dock, you can't say no to some things. You can't refuse to pick up your option because there is no option.

Impossible loves. I am very much afraid they can become an addiction.

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing

To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write.

I have no idea when I'll wear it, but I have to have it.

Still watches too much porn, though. You can tell.

HOLLOW-TOOTH SYNDROME: Compulsion to torture oneself mentally, based on the fact that nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the brain and said, lie down and masturbate one more time.

Love is a kind of insanity, and many people have, while crazed with passion, ruined their lives and those of others.

In times of stress, psychological pressures compel us to deny or dismiss inconsistent evidence, pushing us to perceive certainty and clarity where there is neither.

He doesn't so much fall in love as dive-bomb it like a kamikaze pilot, fearless and at full throttle. He used to look at this propensity as a gift, then a curse, and now understands it to be just another way in which he is broken.

Soy uno de esos lectores tan bulímicos que se avergüenzan de ello y acogen con alegría cualquier motivo honorable, profesional, por ejemplo, para saciar su vicio

En la personalidad inmadura hay una exaltación del instante y un vértigo por lo inmediato; la necesidad de una pronta recompensa le impide renunciar a las demandas del entorno. Y

He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind

love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of God.