“In psychological terms, he was neurotic and she was uncommonly sane. His inevitable eruptions would not threaten the marriage, because she was… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“He disregards my opinions and wishes at every turn, with his neurotic, challenging ways, and now I fear I’m becoming neurotic and… — Jodi Ellen Malpas Copy Share Image
Jesus becomes the captive of the hysterically religious, the chronically fearful, the insecure and even the neurotic among us, or he becomes… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
When I spoke with psychoanalysts, they confirmed to me that the most neurotic relationship is always between mother and daughter. The cliché… — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone… — Vivian Gornick 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
My friends once told me I remind them of the main character from the American comedy series 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I thought… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it.… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
I can honestly say this industry hasn't made me neurotic about my looks, except maybe my weight. I hope my clothes kind… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other… — Gwen Stefani 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
In filming you're waiting. You're waiting for lights. You're waiting for people set things up. And when you're not waiting, you're repeating.… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
“The tenacity with which the neurotic adheres to any attitude is a sure indication that the attitude fulfills functions which seem indispensable… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic,… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
“I was attracted to the strangeness of his mind as a psychiatrist might have been drawn to an interesting case. he wanted… — Elizabeth Harrower Copy Share Image
The perfectionist is bound to be a neurotic, he cannot enjoy life, until he is perfect. And perfection as such never happens,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding… — Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“I haven’t got time to be neurotic,” he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with… — Charles Jackson Copy Share Image
To get to go from stage to set and back, it keeps you feeling very present, and I think that's always such… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It… — Henry Miller 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
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone. — Mignon McLaughlin 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
“To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no… — William Glasser M.D Copy Share Image
I'm completely neurotic, totally anxious and high-strung all the time. — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors. — Gene Tierney 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
“An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art.” — Lee Simonson Copy Share Image
