“The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as… — Carl Elliott Copy Share Image
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Old Scully, who according to Jennifer, hadn't the imagination to think the worst. Something she said once, as though neurosis was an… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states,… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Neurosis is the rule, not the exception’, and grasping this can help us to see that we are not alone. It is… — Oliver James Copy Share Image
The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It's just not the same… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements,… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Thrown into the atmosphere of action [in 1954], I suddenly understood the kind of neurosis that dominated all my previous work. I… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought,… — Peter Dobereiner Copy Share Image
“The demons are not easily dispatched, instead attaching themselves to otherwise beautiful things, a favorite food or a love note left for… — Thomm Quackenbush 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
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a… — Mae Whitman Copy Share Image
“The tenacity with which the neurotic adheres to any attitude is a sure indication that the attitude fulfills functions which seem indispensable… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
And I think for me theres a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The whole world itself is going through a unique kind of neurosis, which was not there in the past. This is simply… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness:… — Fleur Adcock Copy Share Image
A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And,… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
“It is naturally a sign of inner liberation when a patient can squarely recognize his difficulties and take them with a grain… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Would I love to run around and check out if Jennifer Aniston was looking for a boyfriend? Yeah, it would be interesting… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
![“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. [...] If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much…” quote by Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/59b/sigmund-freud-360_acquisition_religion-is-an-attempt-to-get-control-ov_272243.jpg)
![“Thrown into the atmosphere of action [in 1954], I suddenly understood the kind of neurosis that dominated all my previous work. I had not been able to recognize it before: I was inside. Simone de Beauvoir had guessed these reasons before I did.” quote by Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/045/jean-paul-sartre-220_able_thrown-into-the-atmosphere-of-action-in_423265.png)
![“Would I love to run around and check out if Jennifer Aniston was looking for a boyfriend? Yeah, it would be interesting for a minute. But would I trade in my life to get her and Angelina [Jolie]? No way. I've got something better. And I don't need the neuroses of two type-A personalities in my…” quote by Jon Bon Jovi](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a79/jon-bon-jovi-2929_checks_would-i-love-to-run-around-and-check-out_537313.jpg)
