Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought,… — Peter Dobereiner Copy Share Image
“[Neurotic] pride is both so vulnerable and so precious that it also must be protected in the future. The neurotic may build… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment.… — Chaz Bono Copy Share Image
So maybe it’s just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are… — Craig Finn 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
“It is naturally a sign of inner liberation when a patient can squarely recognize his difficulties and take them with a grain… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
We are loping sequences of chemical conversions, acting ourselves converted. We are twists of genes acting ourselves twisted; we are wicks of… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced… — Beverly Pepper Copy Share Image
Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced… — Beverly Pepper Copy Share Image
I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman. — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
“Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
