Neurotic Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.

— Mignon McLaughlin

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.

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The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone — until they do.

— Mignon McLaughlin

After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's…

— Mignon McLaughlin

When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he…

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The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't -…

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The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

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The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

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Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go…

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A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over…

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Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.

— Mignon McLaughlin

No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.

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As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

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There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.

— Mignon McLaughlin