Clean Quote by James Thurber

I had a compulsion to do it.

— Ed Gein

The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming…

— Gelsey Kirkland

Your body's not meant to take that abuse. I've closed that door, but I don't know that I've locked it for good.

— Stacy Keibler

Had I considered over the course of time the moments where maybe I was the first woman to do this or that, it would…

— Doris Burke

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

It was an urge. . . . . A strong urge, and the longer I let it go the stronger it got, to where…

— Edmund Kemper

“But now the rest of the adjoining cotters rose in a body, and insisted on turning me out. Is it not strange, Sir, that…

— John William Polidori

The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I was a psycho woman. It felt like something in me that I had no control over.

— Katie Price

It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the…

— Jonathan Ames

It was soon evident in my lodgings that I had become a dangerous lunatic, and there would be nothing left to destroy if strong…

— Henry Peach Robinson

I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed…

— Charles Bukowski