Quotes About Compulsion

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

Strider: Red hots dude. He'd ruin anything for a mouthful of those. Now pull over. William: Gummy Bears. You should have said so.

compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge. The way we are able to accomplish all of this is by the simple act of bolting -- of leaving ourselves -- hundreds of times a day.

Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never be sorry.

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off - or pimp themselves out - as art. The simple truth is that the best exponents of the art of contemporary photography continue to produce work that fits broadly within the tradition of what Evans termed 'documentary style'.

Literature is a drug.

He pulled me like a magnet. Every female instinct I had went into overdrive.

Angel, while diplomatic, suffered from an eloquent man's malady—faced with silence, he felt compelled to fill it, even when it was in his best interests to keep his mouth shut.

It was all very simple. I just loved her. I couldn't stop. I haven't stopped. Oh God.

I've got to see you, I've got to talk about her, I shall go mad.

Ah'm thinking about shoutin 'stop' but ah could never turn away at this point. If smack is as addictive as they say, then ah'm already aw the junky ah'm ever gaunny be.

Was he an alcoholic? What was that? Someone who drinks all the time? Who can't say no to a drink? Who drinks in secret? Somebody who anticipates the next drink before he's finished with the one in front of him?

All her troubles were caused by her madness for clothes. She simply could not think about anything else.

The path to addiction is straight and well paved;

I must have seen the 'Twlight Zone' movie, like, a thousand times.

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work.