Quotes About Compulsion

Às vezes queremos o que queremos mesmo sabendo que isso vai nos matar. Não podemos escapar de quem somos.

A moi. L'histoire d'une de mes folies.

I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive

There is always a reason, a primary reason to start with. But a man who faces such dangers as the unknown world still offers must have, within himself, another compulsion. An agitation, as Nicolas de Nicolay would put it. Why should it not be spoken of?" "To fill an idle moment?" Chancellor said. He refused the lead. "To learn," Lymond said.

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't, they win.

Everybody has a 'gripping stranger' in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it's the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing White Shoulders who stamps your book at the library—a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying 'Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida,' you'd follow them.

Once it got into your blood, you could never get it out again.

Necessity is stronger far than art.

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

It's awful, isn't it? This love business gets hold of you and you can't do anything about it.

It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!

Without acute mania it may nevertheless occur that certain natures lack what I should describe as braking power. If you or I were to say, 'I hate someone—I wish he were dead,' the idea would pass from our minds as soon as the words were uttered. The brakes would work automatically. But, in some people the idea, or obsession, holds. They see nothing but the immediate gratification of the idea formed.

The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. He might get burned, but he's in the game. And once he's in, he can't go back, he'll Beat his wings 'til he burns them black... No, The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. . . The Moth don't care if The Flame is real, 'Cause Flame and Moth got a sweetheart deal. And nothing fuels a good flirtation, Like Need and Anger and Desperation... No, The Moth don't care if The Flame is real. . .

The world is full of men with strange obsessions who will stop at nothing to get what they want.

The persecution that was destroying me had become a necessity.

Such was the nature of obsessions: no quarter given for the human cost.

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

I am an addictive personality.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

I bite the hell out of my fingernails. I can't stop. I should stop. It would be nice to grow my fingernails out. It would be healthier. I could pick up dimes.

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate.

Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!