Quotes About Compulsion

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.

I can handle it. I'm no addict, I'm a recreational killer. Yeah Harry says, like Hitler was a recreational killer.

What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

I became addicted to the guilt. The strange thrill of doing something so morbid, so off-color, and so completely wrong.

Often what we call "play" is competitive or compulsive, because the aesthetic dimension of true play, its holy uselessness, goes against our grain.

Fast-food outlets are cultural institutions dedicated not only to dealing with mankind's compulsion to eat and drink regularly, but also to doing battle with his twin and fatal limitations of space and time.

You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

After I won a match at a tournament I tried to repeat everything I did the day I won. Before my next match, I ate the same food, I went to the same restaurant etc. Sometimes it got very boring.

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.

My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter.

Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else.

I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

Inside me theres a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes

El 10 de abril: <> Bueno, ¿y qué era? Todavía no lo sé. Me atraían sus ojos, su voz, su cintura, su boca, sus manos, su risa, su cansancio, su timidez, su llanto, su franqueza, su pena, su confianza, su ternura, su sueño, su paso, sus suspiros. Pero ninguno de estos rasgos bastaba para atraerme compulsiva, totalmente. Cada atractivo se apoyaba en otro. Ella me atraía como un todo, como una suma insustituible de atractivos, acaso sustituibles.

Jugar solo tiene gracia cuando es el resultado de una libre elección, y no cuando es la opción única, casi obligatoria.

No cabía otra solución y salí adelante. Pero todo fue siempre demasiado obligatorio como para que pudiera sentirme feliz.

an obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more.

When you trick somebody into participating in a small-time fraud, it's called a 'scam.' But when the scam is so big that people have no choice but to participate, it's called 'economics.

And yet, far off, I can hear something whispering that this compulsion to do, to intrude ourselves, to improve on what is--even when wholly well intentioned, particularly when wholly well intentioned--is the source of all our troubles.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.