Neurotic Quotes · Page 5

That's one thing I get neurotic about: I need my soup to be crazy hot.

— Chrissy Teigen

I guess I can be a little neurotic sometimes, but can't everybody?

— Rebecca Romijn

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I am a very neurotic person all the time.

— Joanna Kulig

I'm extremely neurotic; it's the way my brain is built.

— Charlie Brooker

[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

Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

— Chris O'Dowd

The funny thing is, I look at these magazines that make me so insecure and neurotic, but I'm in them!

— Heather Graham

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

— Jane Jacobs

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

— Steven Morrissey

I try not to be but Im super-neurotic about diet. Im neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! Im like every other…

— Gwen Stefani

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

— Bradford Cox

Sex according to Sangarakshita is rooted in the Lower Evolution and does not, in his experience, enhance communication between individuals. And sexual…

— Sangharakshita

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

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 tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read…

— Stephenie Meyer

“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

It's possible that I would have been better suited to being a penguin keeper. Starting out, I thought being a writer would…

— Scott Stossel

For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of…

— Anais Nin

“Neurotic people often feel as if they are fakes, playing the social game while inwardly despising it, and have a sense of…

— Darian Leader

I'm neurotic in the sense that I can have a crowd of 300 people cheering you, applauding you, standing O, but one…

— Wayne White

Until you go through with it yourself, you simply can't imagine it. But it is the transition of going back to work…

— Phoebe Philo

I don't want comedy to be Bridesmaids 2. I'm not denigrating Bridesmaids but, enough already, let's stop pretending women are incalculably different…

— Greg Proops

“All of a sudden I understood why I was so moody, neurotic, simultaneously paranoid and megalomaniac, mistrustful, uneasy, driven by ambition but…

— Steven Pressfield

Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We…

— Frederick Salomon Perls

Writing is one thing, but I'm way more insecure and neurotic when it comes to acting.

— Tim Robinson

Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding.

— Tom Robbins

I'd probably be one of these terribly over-protective parents whose children become a neurotic wreck because they've never been exposed to real…

— Ben Miller

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

I'd love to talk to myself at 40 and see what I've achieved and what I feel... but I will just be…

— Matty Healy

I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.

— Mignon McLaughlin

After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and…

— Tullian Tchividjian

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

In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

— M.I.A