Quotes About Urge

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.

Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

After people are clothed and fed, then they think about sex

Heart an' belly an' cock.

That's the recoil of the same urge. The anarchist, the criminal, the murderer, he is only the extreme lover acting on the recoil. But it is love: only in recoil. It flies back, the love-urge, and becomes a horror.

the desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature;

Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world.

Okay that's it. Now I'm torching this. I just need to score a match.

All of earth's creatures have, hidden within their beings, a wild uncontrollable urge to punt!

The salt of those ancient seas is in our blood, its lime is in our bones. Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

Desire is an attempt to feel the void.

To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.

Even death row speaks, breathes, lives. Even on death row, the deep-seated urge to communicate cannot be extinguished.

I took the bottle and poured another drink. Already it was quite clear to me that I was completely drunk and that I should not take any more. Even so, the urge to go on drinking was stronger. The coloured web in my brain enticed me, the dark untrodden jungles of my inner self tempted me; from afar, a soft seductive voice was calling.

It's not just extreme deviance that distinguishes the fantasy life of psychopaths but their overpowering urge to translate their sickest fantasies into fact. The most extravagant erotic daydreams of normal people always run up against what Freud called "the reality principle.

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

It was only a matter of time. The urge to reform the male is something no woman can resist.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

It was one of those impulse things

The urge to run, the restlessness The heart of stone I sometimes get The things I've done for foolish pride The me that's never satisfied The face that's in the mirror when I don't like what I see I guess that's just the cowboy in me

choices may be the cornerstone of individual freedom but, as the history of humanity shows, the urge to surrender to something larger and to transcend the self can be just as urgent, if not more so. The greatest propagandists and advertisers have always understood this.