74 Quotes About Compulsion

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm.

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

We are comfortable with compulsion in other walks of life, such as jury duty or the requirement to educate our children.

The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.

My compulsion is to create things.