Quotes About Compulsion

I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

Obsession is just a variety of addiction.

Once you begin throwing your life away, you have to go through it until the compulsion to destroy has run its course.

Alcoholism can be understood as a spiritual disorder, Ross told me the first time we met, in the treatment room at NYU. Over time you lose your connection to everything but this compound. Life loses all meaning. At the end, nothing is more important than that bottle, not even your wife and your kids. Eventually, there is nothing you won't sacrifice for it.

With a sinking feeling, I have come to a horrible conclusion: I am addicted to Donald Trump.

I placed some silly wagers, sixty grand here, eighty grand there. I'd ring up a bookie and bet £10,000 on something like who would be the first batsman out at Lord's that day. I was that off my head.

I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

But love is love. It makes you do terribly stupid things.

So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.

Falling in love was not really a choice; it just struck me.

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

Reading LOVE JUNKIE is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written, piercingly honest.

Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.

I drink to feel / I smoke to breathe / Just look what love / Has done to me

Love makes us do wicked things.

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.

Love makes a person do strange things.

Once you start watching a television show that you love you can't stop watching it.

I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.