Quotes About Compulsion

It's like you get a high off the jumps, and you crave it, and you want to do it again and again and again.

I have a confession to make - I am very fond of junk food.

Sometimes I can't stop myself from buying things just because I see them - even when I don't really need them.

I was always biting the hand that fed me. It was compulsive. Kennedy was very good to me, and I attacked him as soon as he was elected. I attacked him before he was elected.

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

Moth to a flame I follow.

Gwen Cassidy needed a man. Desperately. Failing that, she'd settle for a cigarette.

Don't make me hunt you, Princess," Ryodan warns softly. "You'll become my sole target, my obsession, my compulsion, my undying homicidal fantasy, the object of my every fucking thought and inclination, and the more time I have to contemplate what I'm going to do to you when I find you—

Quod not cogit amor? (Is there anything love couldn't make us do?)

He was obsessed, and obsessed men are dangerous men.

When one feels threatened, one clears the house before going to bed, but when one feels safe—a foolish thing to ever believe—one doesn't compulsively check all windows and doors, or is perhaps busy celebrating what one perceives as a victory over one's enemy. And that's precisely when the enemy strikes.

Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you'd follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.

Margaret Darlington had the kind of power that made sane people do insane things.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

He was one of those people who in all of their feelings and actions seem to be walking along a steep, downhill slope. They lack the strength to stop for a minute, and with each step, they get more and more carried away. Like all of them, Dmitry took this insufficiency of strength for fervency of character and insuperable storminess of passion.

Human beings, when confronted with the strange and inexplicable, have an immediate instinct to get back to the accustomed and the normal. We do not hug our miracles close; we put them hastily away, preferring the commonplace to live with it. It is as if some compulsive hand wipes clean the wall on which the handwriting appeared.

But Sadie knew it was easy to get addicted to the taste of your own carnage.

We do things without knowing entirely why, just because our heart tells us that we must" -Theo

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

If there's something about me you don't like, just tell me," says the newlywed anxious to please. "I'll change it." If he or she is not forthcoming with such an offer, the other one is determined to change it for the partner. "He may drink a little too much now," the bride confides to her friend, "but I'll reform him." Examination

She reached into an alabaster box and pulled out a violet cigarette that also exactly matched her eyes. Some people just don't know when to quit. She lit her colored coffin nail, set it into an ashtray, and promptly forgot about it. It smoldered into eternity silently begging for one more touch from her gorgeous lips.

Oh. Sorry. I just kinda have a thing for cabinets. And chests. And caskets, trunks, crates, cartons... all kinds of boxes, I guess.

men are often persuaded to new vices when properly motivated.