I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge… Normality is the Great… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment.… — Chaz Bono Copy Share Image
Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the… — Martha Gellhorn 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
By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
“[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced… — Beverly Pepper Copy Share Image
When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
So maybe it’s just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it's neuroticised and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something… — Vincent D'Onofrio Copy Share Image
“neurosis as a problem of character and have seen that it can be approached in two ways: as a problem of too… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“The pride in intellect, or rather in the supremacy of the mind, is not restricted to those engaged in intellectual pursuits but… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can… — Sam Taylor-Wood Copy Share Image
One of the keys to thinking big is total focus. I think of it almost as a controlled neurosis, which is a… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid,… — Jim Shaw Copy Share Image