Quotes About Compulsion

I tell you what. Pick it up, open it anywhere, and read three pages. If you can put it down again, I'll pay you a dollar.

I have very little choice. If I don't write, I feel dreadful. So I write.

I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.

This is it, the most powerful thing in the world because all men go crazy for it, more precious than gold since for its sake rich men lose fortunes, sweeter than power because craving for it makes leaders of countries risk their jobs, more powerful than honor because it makes fools of respectable men… It's more powerful than all the world for it contains the whole world plus heaven and hell beside… The power of this grace makes nuclear bombs look like firecrackers.

Asl?nda kötü bir al??kanl?kt?r okumak, öteki bütün kötü al??kanl?klar?n yerini tutabilecek ya da onlar?n yerine herkesi daha bir yoÄŸun biçimde yaÅŸamaya itebilecek bir al??kanl?kt?r, delicesine bir yaÅŸam biçimidir, insan? yiyip bitiren bir tutkudur. Hay?r, uyuÅŸturucu kullanm?yorum, kitaplar? kullan?yorum...

I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

Being taken seriously means missing out on the chance to be frivolous, promiscuous, and irrelevant. The desire to be taken seriously is precisely what compels people to follow the tried and true paths of knowledge production around which I would like to map a few detours.

I can't help it," I said at last, "I'm a born lever-puller.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their common sense.

I was a degenerate, with an insatiable capacity for perversion. Incapable of change. I could do anything except not drink.

SUMMARY CHART OF THE AMEN CLINICS 6 TYPES OF ADDICTS TYPE 1. Compulsive Addicts SYMPTOMS Overfocused, worrying, trouble letting go of hurts

Because you are designed to want something that will hurt you. And you cannot help it...cannot stop wanting it. It is in your design. And when you finally find it, this thing will burn you up. This thing will destroy you.

We create because we cannot stop ourselves from doing so. Because our brains were made that way.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

It was every day on the horses and every single race. I was betting on anything; horses, dogs, virtual racing, roulette.

Repetition compulsion is a formidable beast.

It's not that people want to get hurt again. It's that they want to master a situation in which they felt helpless as children. Freud called this "repetition compulsion." Maybe this time, the unconscious imagines, I can go back and heal that wound from long ago by engaging with somebody familiar—but new. The only problem is, by choosing familiar partners, people guarantee the opposite result: they reopen the wounds and feel even more inadequate and unlovable.

Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?

He was like an addict before a fix. Book freaks are like that, and not just old guys. Look at kids lining up for the latest installment of their favorite books. Stories, they're addictive." Gamache

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

Whenever Ter read a book, rarely—he would rip each page off and throw it away. I would come home, to where the windows were always open or broken and the whole room would be swirling with pages, like Safeway lot pigeons.