Compulsion Quotes

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.

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

It's hard to go out in front of people with an acoustic guitar and improvise for 30 or 40 minutes, but I had a compulsion to do it. I just had to in a way that I can't really explain.

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.

My compulsion is to create things.

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.

There is no compulsion in Islam. You convert "voluntarily". But you are free not to convert by accepting subjugation, humiliation, discrimination and constant harassment. What can be more democratic?

Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

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

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

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

The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action-fast.

What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion.

Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome with the overwhelming compulsion to take Fang's temperature right then.

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

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.

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

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

Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?

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

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense.

...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.

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

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.

I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.

What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on the part of gendarmes, hangmen and penal courts, it is self interest.

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

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

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

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

The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.

I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.