#compulsive

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change. ↗

— Hume Cronyn

#between #busyness #change #compulsive #fill

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#frightening #only #people #silence #who

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. ↗

— Steve Martin

#bit #compulsive #craft #want #whatever

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs. ↗

— David Beckham

#disorder #everything #got #i #line

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

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

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

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#compulsively #longer #need #only #real

Bingeing is such an emotionally frenetic activity that no other concerns can exist in the same space. It is a hell that people who are food-sensitive are familiar with; and, because it is known, it is therefore not so terrifying as some of the problems that are outside our control. Problems like divorce, illness, death. ↗

— Geneen Roth

#compulsive-eating #death

No act of love is ever wasted. ↗

— Geneen Roth

#emotional-hunger #love #experience