A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior. — David Brin Copy Share Image
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses. — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance. — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Im trying to overcome my OCD by replacing my neurosis with three other letters. — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you.… — Jason Beghe Copy Share Image
I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
“Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Neurosis, an obsession with stupidly named food, bookishness - these are all OK to class as attributes that come hand in hand… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It was an accident, although Ive been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child in… — James Dean Copy Share Image
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure… — Zelda Fichandler Copy Share Image
“HYPERAROUSAL After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like… — Florence King Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
“The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patient may make astute observations about himself… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greater proportions. This is a well known fact about… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The cases described in this section (The Fear of Being) may seem extreme, but I have become convinced that they are not… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them. This is… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
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