Neurosis Quotes · Page 4

“Creo que siempre es preferible la neurosis a la imbecilidad.”

— Rubén Darío

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

— Pema Chodron

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

— Paul Tillich

Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.

— Mason Cooley

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

— Kenneth Tynan

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

— Thomas Merton

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

— Sigmund Freud

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

— Evelyn Waugh

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die…

— Mignon McLaughlin

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

— Anish Kapoor

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

— Sylvia Plath

“[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.”

— Joseph Brodsky

“Let each child have that's in our care. As much neurosis as the child can bear”

— W.H. Auden

Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out…

— Pema Chodron

Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and…

— Alfred Adler

That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da…

— Ray Romano

A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs…

— Louis Kronenberger

You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as…

— Abraham Maslow

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge… Normality is the Great…

— Tom Robbins

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not…

— Anais Nin

When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests…

— Henry Miller

And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today…

— William Styron

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

— James Dean

Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be…

— H. L. Mencken

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my…

— Fred Durst

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only…

— Carl Jung

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

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

If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding…

— Margaret Mead

A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

“Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem of human existence],…

— Erich Fromm

“The cases described in this section (The Fear of Being) may seem extreme, but I have become convinced that they are not…

— Alexander Lowen

“We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them. This is…

— Mark Epstein

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

— Anonymous

If you can't handle your neurosis, your neurosis will handle you.

— Chuck Spezzano

“Hope lies in a genuine embracing and nurturing of one's neurosis”

— Chris Niebauer Phd

Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

— Anonymous

I believe that even the worst people on the planet believe that they are somehow justified in their neurosis.

— John Schneider