Neurotic Quotes · Page 6

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

— Lee Simonson

Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

I'm neurotic. I complain all the time. I'm a workaholic. And I'm never satisfied.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

— Karen Horney

Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition…

— Kate Morton

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet…

— Ntozake Shange

You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened…

— Christoph Waltz

Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. You don't want to…

— Robert De Niro

I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by…

— Quentin Crisp

The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“I'm sorry. I shouldn't be working." "Of course you should. I'm alright." "Even F.I.N.E.?" She laughed. "Especially that." Fucked-up. Insecure. Neurotic. Egotistical.”

— Louise Penny

My wife Jennifer Todd, who's a producer. She runs Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's company, and she produced Memento, and Boiler Room,…

— Chris Messina

So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So…

— Allen Ginsberg

Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better…

— Pema Chodron

The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent…

— Paul Robeson

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them…

— Aldous Huxley

Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with…

— Sam Keen

Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful,…

— Richard Bach

If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it…

— Thomas Koerfer

“You know she'll probably be at the party tonight? Which is why I'm absolutely not going if we don't get some coke.'…

— Ned Beauman

“…he is invariably a kind of super-size but unmistakably ‘classical’ neurotic, an aberrant who only occasionally, and never deeply, wishes to surrender…

— J.D. Salinger

Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that…

— Sigmund Freud

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

— George Bernard Shaw

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

— Terence McKenna

Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

The funny thing is, I look at these magazines that make me so insecure and neurotic, but I'm in them!

— Heather Graham

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

— Jane Jacobs

Writing is one thing, but I'm way more insecure and neurotic when it comes to acting.

— Tim Robinson

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

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

— Chris O'Dowd

I'd love to talk to myself at 40 and see what I've achieved and what I feel... but I will just be…

— Matty Healy

I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding.

— Tom Robbins

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

I'd probably be one of these terribly over-protective parents whose children become a neurotic wreck because they've never been exposed to real…

— Ben Miller

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective…

— Wendy Wasserstein

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

— Tom Robbins