Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am. — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor. — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. — William Styron Copy Share Image
I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important.… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
We are loping sequences of chemical conversions, acting ourselves converted. We are twists of genes acting ourselves twisted; we are wicks of… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth… Your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
“The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself. The other problem is that our… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“As my own neurosis became more subdued I found myself unconsciously drawn to female characters who exhibited signs of behaviors I had… — Kier-La Janisse Copy Share Image
Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love.… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
“Joan felt that she would always be haunted and would always suffer that pang for Kells. She would never lie down in… — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
“Anyone who is truly crazy, in my book, wouldn't be able to understand the dialectic of crazy and not-crazy. Listen, I've worked… — James Curcio Copy Share Image
“It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early investigations, he… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself. Not a… — Ken Dryden Copy Share Image
I have a great editor and I enjoy, in a masochistic way, being ruthless about my own performance. How do I know,… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
