To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part. — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image
I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs. — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
As an artist you can use your own discomfort and neuroses and difficulties and at least transform them into something else. Without… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so. — Francesca Annis Copy Share Image
It's a very neurotic time we live in, this postanalytical period where everybody goes to a shrink to solve their problems. — Peter Riegert Copy Share Image
The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
"My door is always open - bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent. — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
I could never write about the sort of people John Cheever or John Updike or even Margaret Atwood write about. I don't… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't -… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I had taken the photograph from afar (distance being the basic glitch in our relationship), using my Nikon and zoom lens while… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
