If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way. — Nancy Hale Copy Share Image
“I'm neurotic--in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I have the sort of temperament where I try not to over think things, I don't get flustered and I don't panic.… — Tom Bennett Copy Share Image
When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Knowing we’re saved by grace but still living under the law makes for a spiritually neurotic person. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic. — Anonymous 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
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
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 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
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
Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing,… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
In general, I've found female protagonists more intriguing to work with than males. I cherish women and have always preferred their company,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Neurotic: The one who is so obsessed with himself or herself, that believes everything I post on facebook is a personalized message,… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You wake up but not really. In the bedroom you grew up in. It's the only place on this entire planet that… — Peter Wentz Copy Share Image
Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution? — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time. — Ed Bliss 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
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by… — Lionel Trilling 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
...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Happiness research has shown that people who savor life experiences are less neurotic and more self-confident.” — Tammy Strobel Copy Share Image
The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important.… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me. — Len Wein Copy Share Image
