74 Quotes About Compulsion

Her child has been taken away from her, Her breasts are overflowing with milk. So she feeds the orphans. Tears are flowing from her eyes. She is happy to help the orphans but there is a pain and guilt that the milk which was for her child is being consumed by others.

The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem is ultimately 'being human' in an environment that is curiously ill-equipped to deal with the challenges that entails.

The sun shines, not out of affection, but out of compulsion.

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

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're helpless to the behaviour but the effort involved is just unbelievable.

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.

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.

A compulsion, a life with a goal, how could you tell the difference?