Neurotic Quotes · Page 4

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he…

— Louis Auchincloss

I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if…

— Rachel Weisz

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

— Tom Robbins

I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection.

— Russell Brand

When I'm writing, I don't feel neurotic. So it's better for the family if I'm working.

— Paul Auster

The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he…

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Tom Robbins

I'd love to talk to myself at 40 and see what I've achieved and what I feel... but I will just be…

— Matty Healy

Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near…

— Louis Kronenberger

If it's a 50-seat theater, I am neurotic about whether I'm doing an honest performance. Sometimes I walk away happy enough with…

— Cameron Britton

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or…

— Christopher Koch

You can party, but I better not catch you drunk. (Wulf) (Chris rolled his eyes, then bent down to said to Cassandra’s…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she…

— James Earl Jones

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts…

— Terence McKenna

“As a consequence there are many people who become neurotic because they are only normal, as there are people who are neurotic…

— Carl Jung

It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the…

— William Osler

I'm neurotic in the sense that I can have a crowd of 300 people cheering you, applauding you, standing O, but one…

— Wayne White

For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of…

— Anais Nin

It's possible that I would have been better suited to being a penguin keeper. Starting out, I thought being a writer would…

— Scott Stossel

What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members…

— Arianna Huffington

Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it…

— Stephen Batchelor

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They…

— Anonymous

Psychotherapy can help some people, especially people who are neurotic, who are always making problems for themselves. We are like a rider…

— Jonathan Haidt

“A person's attachment status is a fundamental determinant of their relationships, and this is reflected in the way they feel about themselves…

— Jeremy Holmes

I'd probably be one of these terribly over-protective parents whose children become a neurotic wreck because they've never been exposed to real…

— Ben Miller

When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?

— Mignon McLaughlin

Writing is one thing, but I'm way more insecure and neurotic when it comes to acting.

— Tim Robinson

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

— Chris O'Dowd

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet…

— Ntozake Shange

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

— Karen Horney

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I'm neurotic. I complain all the time. I'm a workaholic. And I'm never satisfied.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

“Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?”

— Malcolm Bradbury

I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous…

— Duff Goldman

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

— Lee Simonson