#compulsive

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#anxiety #back #cases #compulsively #depression

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me. ↗

— David Guterson

#almost #basis #became #becoming #being

The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an hour they swallow in three minutes gulping down their food like the [dog] under the table which when a chunk of meat is thrown down to it swallows it before you can say 'twice.' If you want a reform carry out the advice I have just given you. Dispense with your multitudinous dishes, and, depend upon it, you will do much towards preserving your families from sickness, disease and death. ↗

— Brigham Young

#compulsive-overeating #death

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 the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. ↗

— Joan Didion

#any #compulsion #compulsive #down #impulse

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer. ↗

— Rita Dove

#find #i #love #read #reading

I'm, like, a compulsive eater. I'm going to be so fat when I'm older, it's ridiculous. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#eater #fat #going #i #like

I think in Mrs. C, I certainly played myself. A very compulsive, sweet person. ↗

— Marion Ross

#compulsive #i #i think #mrs #myself

My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#both #boyfriend #compulsive #controlling #i

I am a compulsive and concise shopper. ↗

— Zac Posen

#compulsive #concise #i #i am

Well, I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

#i #over #used #well