(27 quotes found)
“It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.”
Anthony Storr
“Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.”
Walter Gropius
“Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.”
David Bohm
“Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature . . . what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action . . . if you know these things about a man you can touch him at the core of his being.”
William Bernbach
“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
William S. Burroughs
“I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.”
Kelly Clarkson
“Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.”
Walter Benjamin
“For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.”
Xenophon
“It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing.”
Joost Meerloo
“I had a compulsion to do it.”
Ed Gein
