Compulsive Quotes

112 quotes by 101 authors

The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases… — Chuck Palahniuk
Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly. — Neil Gaiman
Iâ€™m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. — Anne Lamott
He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs.… — Joe Hill
love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized! — Eric Jerome Dickey
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory… — Rollo May
Hello, hello.â€ Magnus swept toward them..."Alec, my darling, Clary. And rat-boy." He swept a bow toward Simon, who looked annoyed. "To what do I owe… — Cassandra Clare
He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the… — Honore de Balzac
I'm a compulsive everything. — Mike Birbiglia
Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched… — Laurie R. King
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in… — Joan Didion
Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors… — Douglas Coupland
No matter how strong our resolve, we eventually find ourselves enslaved by the compulsive preference for one particular woman. Youâ€™ve been caught, my friend. You… — Lisa Kleypas
Chyertiâ€”thatâ€™s us, demons and devils, small and bigâ€”are compulsive. We obsess. Itâ€™s our nature. We turn on a track, around and around; we march in… — Catherynne M. Valente
The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in… — Eckhart Tolle
One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid… — Piers Anthony
[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it. — Amy Waldman
...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking. — David Foster Wallace
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique.… — Tim Lott
A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state… — Dan Millman

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