Overwhelming Urge Quotes

• A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.

  Etty Hillesum

  Gratitude, Hands, Desire

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.320, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers.

  Tom Wolfe

  Real, World, Disease

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• This morning, as Charlotte approached the brick facade of Hartnett, she found herself overcome with a great sense of dread. It hit her with a strange and sudden force, and she had an overwhelming urge to turn back, get into bed and not go out for about three weeks. She stopped in her tracks. The feeling itself was alarming to Charlotte - was she sensing something? Something dangerous? And was it something supernatural or just middle school? Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference.

  Anne Ursu

  Morning, School, Differences

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• The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Struggle, Writing, Life Is

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.2993, e-artnow

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• If you feel an overwhelming urge to act spontaneously, pull in the reins

  Priscilla Shirer

  Reins, Feels, Ifs

  Priscilla Shirer (2007). “Discerning the Voice of God: How to Recognize When God Speaks”, p.146, Moody Publishers

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• To me writing was not a career but a necessity. And so it remains, though I am now, technically, a professional writer. The strength of this inborn desire to write has always baffled me. It is understandable that the really gifted should feel an overwhelming urge to use their gift; but a strong urge with only a slight gift seems almost a genetic mistake.

  Dervla Murphy

  Strong, Mistake, Writing

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