It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child -… — James Dean Copy Share Image
An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure… — Zelda Fichandler Copy Share Image
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements,… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense… — Erich fromm Copy Share Image
“It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early investigations, he… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Anyone who is truly crazy, in my book, wouldn't be able to understand the dialectic of crazy and not-crazy. Listen, I've worked… — James Curcio Copy Share Image
“HYPERAROUSAL After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Hope lies in a genuine embracing and nurturing of one's neurosis” — Chris Niebauer Phd Copy Share Image
Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“[...]as Sylvester says, a man who has never been afflicted with a neurosis does not know the meaning of suffering.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A little bit of neurosis is OK as a performer, but untethered, it can tear one apart. — Lauren Ashley Carter Copy Share Image
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The consolations of space are nameless things. It was after the neurosis of winter. It was In the genius of summer that… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It's just not the same… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states,… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image