A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them. This is… — Mark Epstein 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
As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?” — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important.… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
“Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it's neuroticised and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patient may make astute observations about himself… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor. — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a… — Mae Whitman Copy Share Image
As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to… — James Agee Copy Share Image
A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid,… — Jim Shaw Copy Share Image
The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
“Joan felt that she would always be haunted and would always suffer that pang for Kells. She would never lie down in… — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
