Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl. — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic. — Greg Child Copy Share Image
I wasn't super emo when I was younger but I'm very neurotic, my mood swings really heavily so when I'm upset I… — AJ Tracey Copy Share Image
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
“She was a little neurotic—hello, she organized her paper-clip collection by size and color—but she was the best” — Jessica Burkhart Copy Share Image
So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that,… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns--fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns--seem to melt away, and people get another perspective… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
If something isn't working out in one aspect of my career, it's not any big neurotic, crazy phase for me, it's just… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
[Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
I try not to be but Im super-neurotic about diet. Im neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! Im like every other… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
I was only in the public eye because I was annoying. You know how neurotic people may ask for one thing when… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Playing in (the Neurotic Outsiders) with John Taylor was great. A lot of pussy every time we played a gig. So many… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy can help some people, especially people who are neurotic, who are always making problems for themselves. We are like a rider… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To be sick, to be neurotic, if you like, is to ask for guarantees. The neurotic is the flounder that lies on… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“A person's attachment status is a fundamental determinant of their relationships, and this is reflected in the way they feel about themselves… — Jeremy Holmes Copy Share Image
God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Neurotic people often feel as if they are fakes, playing the social game while inwardly despising it, and have a sense of… — Darian Leader Copy Share Image
Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are it's victim and we have no… — William Glasser M.D Copy Share Image
“The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.” — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems. — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
I remember playing John Wayne Gacy, serial killer, very sick, neurotic, screwed-up guy. You know what? There's a part of me there,… — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the… — Sally Field Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for a sign - not in a spooky, supernatural way, but in a 'neurotic writer' kind of way. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
In a show that has so many neurotic, broken beta characters, it's always fun to bring in a character who's really confident… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
“What I was to do with my hands suddenly became a distinct and unsolvable problem.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I'm quite neurotic, usually. But when it comes to work, I become extremely focused. — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image