Neurotic Quotes · Page 6

“...the neurotic is very often psychic, and the psychic is very often neurotic.”

— Dion Fortune

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

We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But…

— Jeanette Winterson

I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon…

— Leslie Jamison

After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I really like New York a lot, but I like it more as a place to visit. It was really difficult for…

— Bethany Cosentino

I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic…

— Bridget Fonda

Everybody always asks me what the big surprises were that I discovered about Woody and I never have a good stock answer…

— Robert B. Weide

Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding…

— Alfred Adler

I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like…

— Stephen Sondheim

I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were…

— Russell Smith

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

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

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

As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous…

— Libba Bray

“The red indicator light just came on. I'm looking at the run-time error report. It's like a mathematically precise way of saying,…

— Charles Yu

Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of…

— Charles Bukowski

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland. We know from the French, their wonderfully neurotic presidents, that our hands are…

— Ciaran Hinds

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were…

— Francois Truffaut

Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that…

— Sigmund Freud

I'm quite neurotic, usually. But when it comes to work, I become extremely focused.

— Julie Delpy

Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“What I was to do with my hands suddenly became a distinct and unsolvable problem.”

— Catherine Lacey

I'm always looking for a sign - not in a spooky, supernatural way, but in a 'neurotic writer' kind of way.

— Erik Larson

In a show that has so many neurotic, broken beta characters, it's always fun to bring in a character who's really confident…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

“The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.”

— Karen Horney

You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.

— David Lee Roth

You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the…

— Sally Field

I remember playing John Wayne Gacy, serial killer, very sick, neurotic, screwed-up guy. You know what? There's a part of me there,…

— Brian Dennehy

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

— Wendy Wasserstein

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that,…

— Gene Wilder

“She was a little neurotic—hello, she organized her paper-clip collection by size and color—but she was the best”

— Jessica Burkhart

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

— Karl Abraham

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic…

— Carson McCullers

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

— Molly Harper