“Making shit happen all the time is a compulsion.”— Mike White, Olivia Mossbacher, Sydney Sweeney, imdb.com
“What is this compulsion to have people over at your house and serve them food and talk to them?”— Larry David, Larry David, Larry David, imdb.com
“I understand what you did, why you did it. And I’ll understand when you do it again, because you will. You’ll have to. We will have to.”— Ian Goldberg, Andrew Chambliss, Madison Clark, imdb.com
“There's somebody out there that is watching this and hasn't done that – hasn't killed people, and wants to, and rages inside and struggles with that feeling, or is so sure they have it under control. They need to talk to somebody about it. Trust somebody enough to sit down and talk about something t…”— Edmund Kemper, youtube.com
“As the years went by, and the compulsion became stronger and the obsession more intense, it became the main focus of my life.”— Jeffrey Dahmer, youtube.com
“It was an incessant and never-ending desire to be with someone at whatever cost. Someone good-looking, really nice-looking. It just filled my thoughts all day long.”— Brian Masters, amazon.com
“[T]he efficiency of the individual is increased more by a far-reaching granting of freedom than by compulsion from above, and it must further prevent the process of natural selection, which is to promote the most efficient, the most able, and the most industrious, from being cut short.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“Those with OCD may be very well aware that their compulsions and obsessions are irrational, but that does not make them less prone to engaging in rituals to ward off the obsessive thoughts and impulses they have.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it.”— Charles Bukowski, allpoetry.com