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Quotes About Urge

We do not do this thing because it is permitted. We do it because we have to. We do it because we are compelled.
~ Alan Moore
There is at the heart of Romanticism an urge to withdraw into oneself in order to then transcend the boundaries of that self and connect with nature and the larger order.
~ Derren Brown
the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation—in short, to remain a memory.'
~ Jennifer Niven
Theodore Finch, in search of the Great Manifesto." "I don't know what that means." "It means 'the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation – in short, to remain a memory.
~ Jennifer Niven
On March 23, 1950, Italian poet Cesare Pavese wrote: "Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation—in short, to remain a memory.
~ Jennifer Niven
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I want that quiet rapture agin. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick join the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I want to feel that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
DorinÈ›ele mele sunt împletite ciudat din pofte È™i abandon.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I feel excited; but I do not want to be, for that is not right. I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken in me the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I wanted it so much. I don't know why I wanted it so much.
~ Ernest Hemingway
You have that pleasant air of a dog in heat.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Jones... I just don't understand. "Yes, I know that you don't," Jones replied, "but it's an odd thing you've been unable to grasp... See I'm not requiring you to understand. I am simply urging you to obey. For it is only when you obey that, eventually, you begin to understand
~ Andy Andrews
When you have an emergency, there is the urge to do whatever it takes to see people get assistance.
~ Meles Zenawi
I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.
~ Ernest Borgnine
When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'
~ Chris Pine
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.
~ Dylan Moran
Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them out, to draw them into language that is rooted in intricate thought and strange impulse.
~ Tracy K. Smith
There was no life in the Abyss, save that which was incorporated in me," it tolled. "Nor was there light, nor motion, nor any sound. Only the urge behind and beyond life guided and impelled me on my upward journey, blind, insensate, inexorable. Through ages upon ages, and the changeless strata of darkness I climbed–
~ Robert E. Howard
Unless I'm wrongI but obeyThe urge of a song:I'm—bound—away!And I may returnIf dissatisfiedWith what I learnFrom having died.
~ Robert Frost
Instinct was clawing at him like an importuning dog.
~ Robert Galbraith
organizations that spread and sustain excellence are infused with a "relentless restlessness"—that often uncomfortable urge for constant innovation, driven by the nagging feeling that things are never quite good enough.
~ Robert I. Sutton