Quotes About Compulsion

DeLillo has said that he no longer feels a compulsion to write long, compendious books. In his later years, Saul Bellow said something similar. DeLillo, of course, has written very long in the past, notably with the 850-page Underworld (1997), and his story has been America.

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

When Orson Welles was acting in 'Compulsion,' the director Richard Fleischer let him just take over and direct the courtroom scenes. To be able to see Welles - who knew more about directing than anyone - direct himself and the other actors, it was unbelievable and unforgettable.

Obsessive love wears down both its target and the obsessor.

Love is a Strong Addiction that makes it Impossible to ignore those involved

Make love an another human compulsion and you will fortify its limitation. Acquire it like knowledge and you will understand everything

I guess I don't try to justify climbing or defend it, because I can't. I see climbing as a compulsion that, at its best, is no worse than many other compulsions - golf or stamp collecting or growing world-record pumpkins.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.

If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity.

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch.

The audience begins to applaud in spite of itself. It's as if they can't stop themselves from applauding, from agreeing with something that they don't quite understand, but that makes too much sense to ignore.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.

The compulsion to defend ourselves is always stronger than the desire to conquer.

You write out of need. You write out of hunger. It isn't your brilliance; it's the flaw in your makeup that drives you.

If a man "whose talk is of oxen" should become an opium-eater, the probability is, that (if he is not too dull to dream at all)—he will dream about oxen.

I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.