Neurotic Quotes · Page 9

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to…

— Sigmund Freud

Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind…

— Manohla Dargis

I'm very neurotic and self-conscious. So I think that I'll know when I'm becoming a dick and believing my own press.

— Andrew Garfield

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living,…

— Rebecca West

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste…

— Phil Donahue

The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess;…

— Andy Warhol

Sex according to Sangarakshita is rooted in the Lower Evolution and does not, in his experience, enhance communication between individuals. And sexual…

— Sangharakshita

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've…

— Max Hastings

All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse.…

— Stephen Leacock

In [Philip] Howard's view, our reliance on law, lawyers, and lawsuits has turned Americans into fat, neurotic cowards who 'go through the…

— Dahlia Lithwick

They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two…

— Hans Eysenck

A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence…

— Tim Robbins

I'm neurotic in the sense that I can have a crowd of 300 people cheering you, applauding you, standing O, but one…

— Wayne White

What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members…

— Arianna Huffington

It's possible that I would have been better suited to being a penguin keeper. Starting out, I thought being a writer would…

— Scott Stossel

Until you go through with it yourself, you simply can't imagine it. But it is the transition of going back to work…

— Phoebe Philo

I don't want comedy to be Bridesmaids 2. I'm not denigrating Bridesmaids but, enough already, let's stop pretending women are incalculably different…

— Greg Proops

“I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are…

— Sigmund Freud

“All of a sudden I understood why I was so moody, neurotic, simultaneously paranoid and megalomaniac, mistrustful, uneasy, driven by ambition but…

— Steven Pressfield

All neurotic symptoms have as their object the task of safeguarding the patient's self-esteem and thereby also the lifeline into which he…

— Alfred Adler

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its…

— Jonathan Kozol

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

So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.

— Francesca Annis

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius.

— Marc Maron

A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.

— Laura Schlessinger

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

— William Glasser

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

— Lake Bell

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

— Sigmund Freud

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

— Sylvia Plath

I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody,…

— John Stamos

I have all my ex-girlfriends lumped into one big girlfriend I called M.A.N.D.Y.: My, Another Neurotic Disappointment? Yes.

— Dana Gould

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

— Tom Baker

Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ?

— Denis de Rougemont

The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion.

— Oscar de la Renta