Quotes About Compulsion

He had revealed himself as false, yet still some part of her felt it was something from the past, something too dreadful to be articulated which impelled him to do the things he did.

It is an addictive substance, life.

Hiding our fears behind compulsive behavior of any kind severely limits our ability to be ourselves.

Writing is born out of passion and desire, but it is bred, brought up, in obsession and compulsion. Feed your drive to persist. Damn your fears. Claim your writing as your own,

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

Love, like addiction, removes all choices...

She tastes like every dark thought I've ever had.

My lips have touched more bottles than lovers and I'm half a shot away from psychotic.

You're like a madnessinside me, a fever I can't cure.

I'd let him get under my skin, and now he had started to occupy my every thought.

On another level compulsion would change matters drastically: the kind of society that would emerge if such acts of redistribution were voluntary is altogether different—and, by our standards, infinitely preferable—to the kind that would emerge if redistribution were compulsory.

You made me love you I didn't want to do it I didn't want to do it.… You made me love you and all the time you knew it

She's finished her cigarette but hasn't put it out properly, so it's still smoking in the ashtray. I crush mine into it, grinding until both stop burning.

No, I've been calm all my life! If I don't do something, it's gonna kill me!

The compulsion to imitate her is not something trivial that women choose freely to do to ourselves. It is something serious being done to us to safeguard political power. Seen in this light, it is inconceivable that women would not have to be compelled to grow thin at this point in our history.

all that the high cost of holy oil delivers is the assuaging of guilt, of the compulsion to sacrifice. In this way, the great medieval industry of pardons and indulgences reappears as the holy oil industry of today. The value of indulgences is their expense to the penitent. Their primary psychological meaning lies in how much the penitent is willing to sacrifice for the sake of forgiveness.

el hombre, como nos enseña Perogrullo, obedece por contra al dictado de su aparato genital o digestivo.

Miquel Moliner estaba poseído por esa laboriosidad culpable, y aunque respetaba y hasta envidiaba la ociosidad de los demás, huía de ella como de la peste. Lejos de presumir de su ética de trabajo, bromeaba sobre su compulsión productiva y la describía como una forma menor de cobardía. -Mientras se trabaja, uno no le mira a la vida a los ojos

He knows very well what underlies the compulsive side of his nature; it is the wish to escape that which he can't comprehend, seeking safety in an unbendable estrangement.

Yet she couldn't help herself. She couldn't stop writing. She was like a medium receiving messages from the dead.

Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.

sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.