Neurotic Quotes · Page 3

I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.

— Claire Danes

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Can you tell I was a depressed, neurotic mess?”

— Gena Showalter

No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.

— G. Bruce Boyer

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

— Carl Rogers

Healthy thinking is a habit, just like neurotic thinking is a habit.

— Wayne Dyer

The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Dion Fortune

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

— Terence McKenna

Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

— George Bernard Shaw

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

— Karen Horney

Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition…

— Kate Morton

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet…

— Ntozake Shange

I'm neurotic. I complain all the time. I'm a workaholic. And I'm never satisfied.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns--fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns--seem to melt away, and people get another perspective…

— Irvin D. Yalom

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody…

— Stone Gossard

My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to…

— Gene Wilder

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

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

— Jon Ronson

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

— Bethany Cosentino

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough…

— Sigmund Freud

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

I'm completely neurotic, totally anxious and high-strung all the time. I sleep for about four hours a night, or day, really. I…

— Taylor Momsen

You must overcome any shyness and have a conversation with the librarian, because he can offer you reliable advice that will save…

— Umberto Eco

“What I did experience when alone was a sort of general neurotic horror, a common attack of nerves and self-loathing magnified to…

— Donna Tartt

The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic…

— John Fowles

Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form…

— Karl Abraham

An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and…

— Peter Schjeldahl

I've always been taught 'Don't go on the internet!' because if someone says something mean about you...as an actor, we're so neurotic.…

— Allison Mack

And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today…

— William Styron

It's neurotic fat women who hate me--they're stupid

— Kate Moss

I'm very neurotic is what my closet says about me. It's always in great order.

— Kimora Lee Simmons

I like the mad and neurotic pace of television.

— Manini Mishra

I'm wired to be neurotic and loud and high-strung.

— Jen Kirkman

The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

— Thomas Szasz

Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.

— Renata Adler

I'm a neurotic mess. I'm really basically just like a 260-pound Woody Allen.

— James Gandolfini