Sad Compulsion Quotes & Sayings

I've never met a soldier who knew he was a hero. It's not false modesty. They simply decide to do something that they know they must do, usually for there comrades, because if they don't, those people will suffer in some way. For them, that compulsion is far stronger than any fear. The fact we find it exceptional is a sad indictment of the human race. I'd like to live in a world of heroes. If we did, there would be no wars. — Karen Traviss

Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Internships are so instrumental, but not only do you need to get them, you need to work at them. — Brad Goreski

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. — Marquis De Sade

In truth I had forgotten all about Arthur and our reason for coming to Benowyc in the first place. — Stephen R. Lawhead

Nature, left to itself, defeats nature. — Georgia Harkness

I want to live like a kid,
Away from bothering about others,
Smile without reason but true from heart,
Cry little harder instead of keeping hard things inside,
Stand up again with more determination when i fall,
And enjoy the gift of life by sharing gift of smile with others. — Nitish Sharma

If everything in life could be as utterly lovely as newly washed hand towels and daintily perfumed soaps. — Jennifer Beckstrand

It all comes with time and patience — Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

In all serious disease states we find a concomitant low oxygen state ... Low oxygen in the body tissues is a sure indicator for disease ... Hypoxia, or lack of oxygen in the tissues, is the fundamental cause for all degenerative disease. Oxygen is the source of life to all cells. — Stephen Levine

What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it's that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of
normality that is just a myth. — Anne Rice