Neurotic Quotes · Page 10

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective…

— Wendy Wasserstein

In [Philip] Howard's view, our reliance on law, lawyers, and lawsuits has turned Americans into fat, neurotic cowards who 'go through the…

— Dahlia Lithwick

They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two…

— Hans Eysenck

I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Sex according to Sangarakshita is rooted in the Lower Evolution and does not, in his experience, enhance communication between individuals. And sexual…

— Sangharakshita

Playing in (the Neurotic Outsiders) with John Taylor was great. A lot of pussy every time we played a gig. So many…

— Duff McKagan

My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to…

— Gene Wilder

Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns--fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns--seem to melt away, and people get another perspective…

— Irvin D. Yalom

It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you…

— Carl Jung

If you're neurotic and you think, I'm not where I deserve to be or my mother didn't love me, or blah, blah,…

— David Mamet

My mind has an obsessive, neurotic quality, but I also have a very hard work ethic. I know that a lot of…

— George Saunders

Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with…

— Sam Keen

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

— Charlotte Rampling

When you're a nerd, you know there's a million types of neurotic self-loathing.

— Jesse Armstrong

I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

— Tamsin Egerton

Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and…

— Ray Romano

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

— Sigmund Freud

There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Contrary to the image of a neurotic man created in some quarters, I feel very much at peace with myself.

— Noel Edmonds

Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ?

— Denis de Rougemont

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

— Tom Baker

I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody,…

— John Stamos

I have all my ex-girlfriends lumped into one big girlfriend I called M.A.N.D.Y.: My, Another Neurotic Disappointment? Yes.

— Dana Gould

So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.

— Francesca Annis

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

— William Glasser

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

— Lake Bell

A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.

— Laura Schlessinger

Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius.

— Marc Maron

Healthy thinking is a habit, just like neurotic thinking is a habit.

— Wayne Dyer

I'm very neurotic is what my closet says about me. It's always in great order.

— Kimora Lee Simmons

The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste…

— Phil Donahue

All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse.…

— Stephen Leacock

Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding.

— Tom Robbins

I was only in the public eye because I was annoying. You know how neurotic people may ask for one thing when…

— Bradford Cox

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

— Jane Jacobs

I try not to be but Im super-neurotic about diet. Im neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! Im like every other…

— Gwen Stefani

Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition…

— Kate Morton

The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do…

— David Ogilvy