Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges… — Alfred Adler 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
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
I'm quite neurotic, usually. But when it comes to work, I become extremely focused. — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life. It's not true.… — John Stamos Copy Share Image
You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. You don't want to… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
“I look at other people and think, "He lives without meds. She does. What is wrong with me? Am I so biochemically… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll e flying… — Sylvia Plath 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
The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for a sign - not in a spooky, supernatural way, but in a 'neurotic writer' kind of way. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“What I was to do with my hands suddenly became a distinct and unsolvable problem.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
The content dictates the style all the time. That's the way it is. If the content of the film - as in… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'm neurotic by nature, but I'm wary of becoming more of a play than a comic - you don't want people coming… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
If I feel my child is being deprived of anything that could affect her progress as a person, then I become extremely… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
Every night, I will write until I'm done. Until my eyes are burning and tearing, and I can't see the computer screen… — Julie Plec 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
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
You make films whether they're dramas or comedies about neurotic people. Flawed people. Interesting personality traits. To make them about calm, stable… — Woody Allen 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 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
