Neurosis Quotes

The neuroses parody the virtues.

— Mason Cooley

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

— James Hollis

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

— Sigmund Freud

“Creo que siempre es preferible la neurosis a la estupidez”

— Azul... Rubén Dario

Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Neurosis is no excuse for bad manners.”

— Sigmund Freud

Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis

— Sigmund Freud

Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.

— Tom Hiddleston

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

— Daniel Radcliffe

our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses.

— Fran Drescher

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.

— Terence McKenna

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

— David Brin

“[...]as Sylvester says, a man who has never been afflicted with a neurosis does not know the meaning of suffering.”

— Henry Miller

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

— Carl Jung

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

— Martin Amis

I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what…

— Terence McKenna

As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to…

— James Agee

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

In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the…

— Chogyam Trungpa

I go to an analyst not because I need to but because I choose to and maybe that's the difference. I don't…

— Mary Tyler Moore

Im a huge fan of The Odd Couple, yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome.…

— David Alan Basche

In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families,…

— Jim Piddock

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

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the…

— Iain Sinclair

The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses…

— Sigmund Freud

Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and…

— Carl Jung

Neurosis, an obsession with stupidly named food, bookishness - these are all OK to class as attributes that come hand in hand…

— David Baddiel

It was an accident, although Ive been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child in…

— James Dean

I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The…

— Doris Lessing

A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses…

— Ayelet Waldman

When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the…

— Marianne Williamson

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced…

— Beverly Pepper

“[Neurotic] pride is both so vulnerable and so precious that it also must be protected in the future. The neurotic may build…

— Karen Horney

“Rank asked why the artist so often avoids clinical neurosis when he is so much a candidate for it because of his…

— Ernest Becker

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums,…

— Henry Miller

“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

“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

“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

“Joan felt that she would always be haunted and would always suffer that pang for Kells. She would never lie down in…

— Zane Grey