Neurotic Quotes · Page 7

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

I wasn't super emo when I was younger but I'm very neurotic, my mood swings really heavily so when I'm upset I…

— AJ Tracey

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

By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.

— Stacy Schiff

To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges…

— Alfred Adler

Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of.

— Lena Dunham

Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another.

— Karen Horney

I'm very neurotic about shaving. I shave first thing in the morning before a shoot, and if I have dinner that night,…

— Chrissy Teigen

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

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've…

— Max Hastings

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

— Bradford Cox

[Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you…

— Steven Morrissey

..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a…

— Anais Nin

The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess;…

— Andy Warhol

Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make…

— Jon Ronson

That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

— Sigmund Freud

“…he is invariably a kind of super-size but unmistakably ‘classical’ neurotic, an aberrant who only occasionally, and never deeply, wishes to surrender…

— J.D. Salinger

Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful,…

— Richard Bach

“You know she'll probably be at the party tonight? Which is why I'm absolutely not going if we don't get some coke.'…

— Ned Beauman

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

— Carl Jung

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

— Carl Jung

Stay neurotic. Stay frustrated. Stay emotional. Stay excited. Your life is happening.

— Erin Foster

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A…

— Jerome Lawrence

The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of…

— Helen M. Luke

I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

— Dick Cavett

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

— Sylvia Plath

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

— Noel Edmonds

The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion.

— Oscar de la Renta

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

Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

— Sigmund Freud

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its…

— Jonathan Kozol

As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to…

— Sigmund Freud