Quotes About Urge

We are formed by what we desire

You see how I go on—like so many strokes of a hammer. I cannot help it—I am impell'd, driven to it.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I have this compulsion for freedom,for a state of liberation. It is an urge so strong, so all-encompassing that it overwhelms everything else. I cannot stand my life as it is. I cannot stand to be here, in this town, in this school. I have to get away.I have to work and work so that I can leave and only then can I create a life that will be liveable for me.

The common signs do not bestow either a hardy constitution or any unusual measure of will power. The vitality not being great, there is insufficient energy to sustain ambition or the urge to power.

When I first came to New York I had a theory about that -- about survivors. I thought there are people in every generation whose urge to survive is so strong they endanger everyone else. And themselves. They are attractive and vital with their secret purpose. We love and follow them. And they are the enemy.

Lucas smiled back. Bowden projected an effortless charisma and he had to resist the urge to tug at his forelock: "Not close enough. A little closer and she wouldn't be in the Senate—she'd be in a different federal institution altogether.

He realized he was having a hard time recognizing that Marcy was gone, and there wasn't a damn thing he could do about it, and that killing Fell would not answer the problem he was having with her death, would not bring her back, and could have devastating consequences for himself and his family. The little man at the back of his mind could whisper all of that to him: and yet, that realization had little effect on the urge for revenge.

Perhaps we have overrated roots as a psychic need. Maybe the greater the urge, the deeper and more ancient is the need, the will, the hunger to be somewhere else.

I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because the fact is that if you write as little as a page of prose-even bad prose-that is eternal.

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

Terapia Para no sucumbir ante la tentación del precipicio el mejor tratamiento es el fornicio.

I can be a gentleman off and on. When the urge hits me. - Tran

I need the ting but not ting ting ting

I can resist everything except temptation.

Food is like sex: when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good.

And this urge to run away from what I love is a sort of sadism I no longer pretend to understand.

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.

Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.

Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.

We need. To need is to be human.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.