Quotes About Compulsion

Let us hope that the Arch somehow survives-that it becomes, far in the future, a mysterious structure like the Great Pyramids or Stonehenge, that leads onlookers to wonder about the people who produced it and ask themselves what strange compulsions led to its creation.

Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling and understanding require total committment.

Wanting no other man save the one she could not get, any other man, the nearest at hand, served her purpose.

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.

Virtually every predominantly Muslim country is either "not free" or "partly free"—with exceptions being Mali and Senegal. Despite the frequently cited Qur'anic passage that says there is "no compulsion in religion

I was stealing salt shakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small child, I knew it would one day come to this.

Really there was no deadlier combination than bookworm and megalomaniac. It was, for example, the crazed condition of many novelists and travelers.

He was practically pushing the hot dogs down his throat.

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement...

There is a deep-seated tendency, it's almost a compulsion, to distract ourselves, even when we're not consciously feeling uncomfortable. Everybody feels a little bit of an itch all the time. There's a background hum of edginess, boredom, restlessness. As I've said, during my time in retreat where there were almost no distractions, even there I experienced this deep uneasiness. The

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Art is a kind of illness.

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

I draw like other people bite their nails.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

Necessity is stronger far than art.

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

I can't keep myself from creativity. Ideas flash like lightning burning my bones. It must flow out of my hands or it will burst me apart.

Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.

As Jebel tried in vain to fall asleep, he became aware of a small clicking noise. He turned and looked at the woman. Her robe was raised above her knees and she was scratching at a wound on her thigh. She had worked her way through to the bone and was picking at it with her nails.

People who live with OCD drag a metal sea anchor around. Obsession is a break, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.

To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.