Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird. — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion. — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
You must overcome any shyness and have a conversation with the librarian, because he can offer you reliable advice that will save… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time. — Ed Bliss Copy Share Image
I don't have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution? — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic. — Greg Child Copy Share Image
“Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greater proportions. This is a well known fact about… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
