Quotes About Compulsion

There's always one character, I think, in every town who's the obsessive who steals money to go and buy records.

I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.

Why does my brain insist on counting the steps every time I walk up a flight of stairs? I just can't help myself. There's something about my mind that always wants to keep counting.

As Vulcan's troublesome history reveals, no one gives up on a powerful, or a beautiful, or perhaps simply a familiar and useful conception of the world without utter compulsion – and a real alternative.

an aggressively encouraged obsessive-compulsive

I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I had no time - and so I became a compulsive outliner of everything. Ever since then, my process has consisted of trying to forcibly rid myself of that compulsion.

I can't deprive myself of things because then I obsess about it and end up eating.

I'm obsessed with making lists.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

Any obsession is dangerous.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it.

I think I've always had an obsession with collecting, as most people do.

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) runs in my family, as do other mental health problems.

I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.

People get obsessive and nuts. It's scary.

La única manera de librarse de la tentación es ceder ante ella. Si se resiste, el alma enferma, anhelando lo que ella misma se ha prohibido, deseando lo que sus leyes monstruosas han hecho monstruoso e ilegal

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

There's a kind of man that when he cant have what he wants he wont take the next best thing but the worst he can find.

If someone said to you that you had thrown your life away over a woman what would you say? Well thrown.

She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn't taste bad, but she was still unhappy.

Tentei incitá-los à vida, e eles incitaram-me à morte. É sempre o que acontece quando há compulsão. Recuar mata o progresso. Chegou o meu momento de estar só.