Quotes About Compulsion

I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.

My worst habit is opening the fridge and thinking: 'I'd like to eat something.'

It is said that passion makes one think in a circle.

the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

On writing Jeeves and Wooster stories]: You tell yourself that you can take Jeeves stories or leave them alone, that one more can't possibly hurt you, because you know you can pull up whenever you feel like it, but it is merely wish-full thinking. The craving has gripped you and there is no resisting it. You have passed the point of no return.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

The story is even Bill Wilson, a founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, couldn't overcome the sex monkey on his back, and spent his sober life cheating on his wife and filled with guilt.

Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom.

Sorry, he said penitently. It's a book. I have no common sense around them.

For the hundredth time, he examined his face in the bathroom mirror, patiently touched every scratch with the styptic pencil, and repowdered them. He ministered to his face and hands objectively, as if they were not a part of himself. When his eyes met the staring eyes in the mirror, they slipped away as they must have slipped away, Guy thought, that first afternoon on the train, when he had tried to avoid Bruno's eyes.

Una nueva compulsión ardía en su interior. Era sencilla. Básica. Primaria. Encontrar a Vittoria. Sentía un inesperado vacío en su interior. A menudo había oído que una situación intensa podía unir a dos personas más que una convivencia de décadas. Ahora lo creía. En ausencia de Vittoria, sentía algo que no había sentido en años. Soledad. El dolor le daba fuerzas.

But maybe it was just a sort of Bluebeard's wife thing. You can't help yourself: Open the door, you stupid bitch. Go ahead.

Never poor vain creature was so wrapt up with every part of the story as I was, not considering what was before me, and how near my ruin was at the door; indeed, I think I rather wished for that ruin than studied to avoid it.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.

You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.

it just sat there hour after hour pushing the button and giving itself jolts of pleasure. It passed up food, it passed up sex.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

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

If the white man has inflicted the wound of racism upon black men, the cost has been that he would receive the mirror image of that wound into himself. As the master, or as a member of the dominant race, he has felt little compulsion to acknowledge or speak of it; the more painful it has grown the more deeply he has hidden it within himself. But the wound is there, and is a profound disorder, as great a damage in his mind as it is in his society.

it.The organized church comes immediately under a compulsion to think of itself, and identify itself to the world, not as an institution synonymous with its truth and its membership, but as a hodgepodge of funds, properties, projects, and offices, all urgently requiring economic support.

MAN is not willingly a political animal. The human male associates with his fellows less by desire than by habit, imitation, and the compulsion of circumstance; he does not love society so much as he fears solitude.

The elements of instruction . . . should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion; for a freeman should be a freeman too in the acquisition of knowledge . . . . Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child (536).

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.