Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A little bit of neurosis is OK as a performer, but untethered, it can tear one apart. — Lauren Ashley Carter Copy Share Image
“Let each child have that's in our care. As much neurosis as the child can bear” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families,… — Jim Piddock Copy Share Image
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I go to an analyst not because I need to but because I choose to and maybe that's the difference. I don't… — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
Im a huge fan of The Odd Couple, yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome.… — David Alan Basche Copy Share Image
As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to… — James Agee Copy Share Image
I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I would want people to take away this idea that sometimes people's problems or neuroses are really the things that are kind… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory;… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Hope lies in a genuine embracing and nurturing of one's neurosis” — Chris Niebauer Phd Copy Share Image
Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile… — Andrew Graham-Dixon Copy Share Image
The consolations of space are nameless things. It was after the neurosis of winter. It was In the genius of summer that… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image