“I have enough trouble living with my own neurosis without coping with other people’s.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. — William Styron Copy Share Image
In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am. — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage.… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
So is fighting incompleteness the source of artistic neurosis? I doubt it. At most, this would apply to artists who deal with… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today… — William Styron Copy Share Image
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I have a great editor and I enjoy, in a masochistic way, being ruthless about my own performance. How do I know,… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself. Not a… — Ken Dryden Copy Share Image
“As my own neurosis became more subdued I found myself unconsciously drawn to female characters who exhibited signs of behaviors I had… — Kier-La Janisse Copy Share Image
Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love.… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image