Compulsion Quotes - Page 2

My compulsion is to create things.

If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.

I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things.

Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.

The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.

We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

I think that I am a compulsive person, but now I'm learning to put those compulsions into healthy things.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.

The dividend I get [from my compulsion] is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.

It was just a compulsion. In fact, I soon realized that the only thing I really enjoyed was the actual snorting.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.