Im trying to overcome my OCD by replacing my neurosis with…

A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.”

— Karen Horney

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

— Carl Jung

“Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, at high speed, her eyes fixed on the road, Abigail asked, a little loudly above the hum, 'Do you…

— Lindsay Hill

You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth… Your every past…

— Anonymous

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

— Carl Jung

And I think for me theres a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the…

— Liev Schreiber

When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind…

— Marianne Williamson

Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an…

— Carl Jung

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred…

— John Boyd Orr

We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion…

— Sigmund Freud

“Creo que siempre es preferible la neurosis a la estupidez”

— Azul... Rubén Dario

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

— Arthur Adamov