Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
“The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“I'm neurotic--in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way. — Nancy Hale Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution? — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time. — Ed Bliss Copy Share Image
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by… — Lionel Trilling 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
This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing,… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“I look at other people and think, "He lives without meds. She does. What is wrong with me? Am I so biochemically… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life. It's not true.… — John Stamos Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest… — Konrad Lorenz 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
I was afraid that I would find out that I didn't work hard, that I wasn't a very good mother. I was… — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Identify the problem.”) I love the late Japanese psychotherapist Shoma Morita's advice to stop trying to fix yourself and start living instead:… — Shoma Morita Copy Share Image
I have a number of symptoms that are neurotic and are constricting in the sense that if I had a brilliant idea… — Woody Allen 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
For the last year and a half, I went from being a crazy workout girl to sort of saying, "My body wants… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
“To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no… — William Glasser M.D Copy Share Image
...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent. — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Happiness research has shown that people who savor life experiences are less neurotic and more self-confident.” — Tammy Strobel Copy Share Image
“...the neurotic is very often psychic, and the psychic is very often neurotic.” — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
“Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?” — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous… — Duff Goldman Copy Share Image
