Quotes About Urge

I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me. I missed them all, through deliberate negligence, Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn't come. I'm free, and against organized, clothed society. I'm naked and plunge into the water of my imagination.

Sometimes you don't know why but you feel attracted to do something.

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.

Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

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.

She was an ordinary person. But by 'ordinary' I just mean that she didn't have any need to dramatize herself. It's not a criticism. I don't think of the urge to perform as something that adds to a person's character. If anything, it's a defect, especially when it's coupled with a need to compete.

The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.

We had been together as animals were, desperate and driven by a fierce need

Time was he'd reckoned himself a quick thinker but the only thing moving fast right then was his cock.

Because his killing is not a passion of the moment but a compelling urge that has been growing within him sometimes for years, he has completely amalgamated this practice into his lifestyle.

For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

Or is that the nature of lust? It's like an urge that disregards all the stuff that your brain knows you actually think. I wonder if guys feel like this all the time. Or maybe if everyone feels like this all the time - everyone besides me - and that's why people act like such half-wits.

Or Bakunin: "There are times when creation can be achieved only through destruction. The urge to destroy is then a creative urge.")

Betcha can't eat just one.

'Tis better than riches To scratch when it itches.

the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence.

Men must want to do things out of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness—they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

he had recently noted a certain tendency toward self-pity, an almost irresistible urge to give in to every desire

I don't do what I do willingly, but I have to do it.

The threat of frustration of a biological urge does not cause conflict and anxiety unless that urge is identified with some value essential to the existence of the personality.

Almost instinct, the way an animal knows the members of its pack, a baby knows her mother, two people flood with a mysterious urge to embrace as lovers.