Quotes About Compulsion

Most feed their obsessions by trying to get rid of them.

A squeeze occurs when people have no choice but to do something, and do it right away, regardless of the costs.

Drogo is obsessed and blinded by the possibility of an unlikely event;

when a self-doubting, insecure person blindly persists in counterproductive behavior, clings to the illusory safety of compulsive inflexibility, and blames all misfortune on someone else.

But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

On Andrew Jackson: His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual might be, it served only to make him a sharper tool.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

I wait on my fix: I am a poetry junkie.

I suppose there's always something out there that we want to torture ourselves with.

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

A los hombres siempre les persigue algo que nunca pueden evitar. Sin descanso, siempre.

e então fomos pra cama e valeu... a PRIMEIRA vez. ela tinha me dito que era ninfo mas eu não acreditara. depois do terceiro ou quarto round comecei a acreditar. percebi que estava com problemas. todo homem acredita que pode domar uma ninfo mas isso só tem como resultado a sepultura – a do homem.

I've learned that life is never what you expect it will be. Just as you come to the fringes of happiness, touching it, feeling it, tasting it—and desperately hoping for the rest of it—it's jerked away." "You have your art." "Yes, but that's a compulsion, not happiness. I paint because I must. I love because I want to be loved in return. Wanted to be.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty," Simone Weil wrote.

I once missed an appointment because I left my house, I locked the door. And then I thought, like anybody else, you know, 'I don't think I locked the door.' I just kept going back to the door. And I couldn't stop myself from checking and checking.

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?

The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.

At times, his devouring, unsated brain seemed to be beyond his governance: it was a frightful bird whose beak was in his heart, whose talons tore unceasingly at his bowels. And this unsleeping demon wheeled, plunged, revolved about an object, returning suddenly, after it had flown away, with victorious malice, leaving stripped, mean, and common all that he had clothed with wonder.

Caroline has been sucked in by the cult. She is obsessed with Trump and adores him, as incommodious as that may seem. She's the masochistic follower who feels a compulsion to be tested, abused, and forced to prove they are deserving of the leader's love over and over and over again. And like many of our parents and grandparents and friends, she's become unreachable, thanks to consuming petty grievances and an impenetrable media bubble.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity.