Quotes About Compulsion

Every time a person goes to the mall, she loses a little piece of her soul

Literature is not always a voluntary act

He fell for an eighteen-year old girl with one of those deepdown spooky loves that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going.

no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever … nor shall … suffer on account of his religious opinions … but all men shall be free to profess … their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

The flame it saw, But thereafter nothing besides the curving, leaping tongues of fire. By the time its eyes were on the flame, The moth was in the fire.

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

i feel like the squirrels that so often run in front of our car & then stand paralyzed in the forward crunch of the tires i'm torn between the compulsion to run & the urge to stand still & hope the danger will pass

She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.

If love is a disease, I suppose I'm infected.

The essence of writing? A hound chasing a fox: irrationally compelled to win the prize and eventual disappointment that it's eluded you.

was Aristotle who said it: "All human actions have one or more of seven causes," and then he named them: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

And [Benji] cheats on you, Beck. A lot. Compulsively. He is in intense pursuit of a performance artist who fucks with his head the way he fucks with yours.

Well," I say and I should shut up and I want to shut up but you make me want to talk.

It didn't occur to me that there was something decidedly odd in finding a box of razor blades aesthetically appealing. I wonder if a heroin addict loves the elegant simplicity of the needle, if a drinker romances the curve and shape of the bottle.

and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.

The knowledge that some people can have enough while you never can is the single most compelling piece of evidence for a drinker to suggest that alcoholism is, in fact, a disease, that it has powerful physiological roots, that the alcoholic's body simply responds differently to liquor than a nonalcoholic's.

Anyone who's ever shifted from general affection and enthusiasm for a lover to outright obsession knows what I mean: the relationship is just there occupying a small corner of your heart, and then you wake up one morning and some undefinable tide has turned forever and you can't go back. You need it; it's a central part of who you are.

Among other things, he [Thomas] insist he will perish if he cannot take me to Venice and watch me fall into a canal.

Thesis Number 23: "The power of government should not be used to compel everyone to learn the same things in the same way at the same place at the same pace at the same age.

As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

It was almost enough to put a man off whoring.

Power makes slaves of us all." & "A habit unchecked, becomes a necessity." - Ed and Luran Warren

We forget because we must And not because we will.

Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.