People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something… — Vincent D'Onofrio Copy Share Image
Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness:… — Fleur Adcock Copy Share Image
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like… — Florence King 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
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
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what… — Terence McKenna 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 often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can… — Sam Taylor-Wood Copy Share Image
Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very… — Nathaniel Branden 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
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 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
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
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on… — Anna Silk Copy Share Image
