Compulsion Quotes

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

— Christoph Martin Wieland

Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.

— Publilius Syrus

“Delusion is not just fantasy but compulsion.”

— Sylvia Nasar

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

— Patrick O'Brian

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

— Charles R. Schwab

No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.

— Samuel Gompers

My compulsion is to create things.

— Julian Schnabel

There shall be no compulsion in religion.

— Anonymous

Change can't be a compulsion. It has to happen organically.

— Smriti Irani

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

— Plato

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

— Juliana Hatfield

“Writer: It's not an occupation; it's a compulsion.”

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

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— Richelle Mead

“It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]”

— Dante Alighieri

When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.

— E. Stanley Jones

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

— Jane Porter

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.

— John Updike

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into…

— John Taylor Gatto

There's a natural human compulsion to chase after freedom and then to actually hand it over as fast as possible and get…

— Alan Taylor

When the heart Is breaks Than heart Do Not Agree To living / ccording to fate still live is a compulsion,

— Mak_786

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it

— Joan Didion

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he…

— Henry Adams

“This is why I am so reticent about our relationship--because on some basic, fundamental level, I recognize within me a deep-seated compulsion…

— E.L. James

“The human compulsion to group people and objects together was ingrained in our being since we evolved. We need to group things,…

— Charlie Caruso

“The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem…

— Russell Brand

Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants.…

— Symeon the New Theologian

The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal…

— Walter E. Williams

“It was an obsession, it was a compulsion. "The way to banish temptation is to give into it," the saying went. Maybe…

— Nikki Sex

Our principle is: to prevent all command over man by his fellowmen, to, make state, government, laws, or whatsoever form of compulsion…

— Johann Most

The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the…

— Christopher Morley

“I have to remind myself to breathe— almost to remind my heart to beat! And it is like bending back a stiff…

— Emily Brontë

I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the…

— James Thurber

Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness…

— Geneen Roth

It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the…

— George Orwell

And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean…

— Plato

And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of…

— William Blackstone

There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently…

— Howard Gardner

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.…

— Eckhart Tolle