He disregards my opinions and wishes at every turn, with…

Trying to motivate yourself with fear is like screaming at a child, “Do something, dammit!” You’ll either freeze up or act in counterproducti ve…

— Martha Beck

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or…

— Christopher Koch

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

I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too…

— Charlie Hunnam

Successful comedians are just as neurotic as I am.

— Josh Widdicombe

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

— Karen Horney

People are very forgiving in my job of neurotic individuals.

— Rebecca Front

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

I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered…

— Colson Whitehead

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just…

— William Hurt

Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

— Wayne White

If I had never gotten famous or rich, I think I'd be equally neurotic.

— Ray Romano

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

— Matty Healy