Compulsion Quotes
33 quotes
"Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie."
"It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them."
"Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are."
"We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again."
"But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself."
"The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle."
"Writer: It's not an occupation it's a compulsion."
"Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time."
"I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will."
"It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate."
Stephen R. Donaldson, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever
"The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many forms - human rights, sexual freedom, political liberty, freedom to choose in many spheres. On the other hand, many of its most intelligent members have not believed that people are free at all, and have devoted great efforts to show that really we are the product of our genes, our unconscious drives, our education, economic pressures, or other forms of conditioning."
"Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy."
"Reading is not optional."
"But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood."
"Once you are defiled, you can't get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be defiled over and over again."
"It was an obsession, it was a compulsion. "The way to banish temptation is to give into it," the saying went. Maybe if she experienced a gangbang, it wouldn't be such a big deal, and would no longer be the focus of her sexual imagination."
"For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a protracted exercise in pulling myself out of a well by a rope, and that rope was work."
Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
"That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened."
"The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It was involuntary, hopeless, compulsive. For years she had been the first thing I remembered when I woke up, the last thing that drifted through my mind as I went to sleep, and during the day she came to me obtrusively, obsessively, always with a painful shock."
"If the if isn't an if, what if is an if that if has to be replaced by an if that if shall never if that the place of if."
"...it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me..."
"Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive."
"I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion."
"Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across texture paper. My eyes squint against the loss of time within the pages of story. I don't think there's a cure for my compulsion to lose myself within life and times of those characters bound between the covers."
"Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are."
"We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives."
"The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason which the employment of coercion necessarily destroys. The liberal has faith in the individual – faith that he can be persuaded by rational means to beliefs compatible with social good."
Harold Edmund Stearns, Liberalism in America: Its Origin, Its Temporary Collapse, Its Future
"30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion."
"You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command."
"The Synonyms of Job is Compulsion!!"
"Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?""Not particularly. You have that effect on people."
"It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]"
"Nothing is compulsory. Free will is paramount. But free will comes with the burden of consequences."
Kelly Sue DeConnick, Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine