“the neurotic symptom is a communication about truth: that the illusion that one is invulnerable is a lie.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
I'm too neurotic to ever feel good. If I ever felt good, I think something horrible would happen. — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When you are calm, quiet and sensitive then you can expand. But when you are irritated, phobic, fearful, insensitive, and neurotic, you… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry. I shouldn't be working." "Of course you should. I'm alright." "Even F.I.N.E.?" She laughed. "Especially that." Fucked-up. Insecure. Neurotic. Egotistical.” — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
My wife Jennifer Todd, who's a producer. She runs Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's company, and she produced Memento, and Boiler Room,… — Chris Messina Copy Share Image
So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So… — Allen Ginsberg 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
“…he is invariably a kind of super-size but unmistakably ‘classical’ neurotic, an aberrant who only occasionally, and never deeply, wishes to surrender… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland. We know from the French, their wonderfully neurotic presidents, that our hands are… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
With acting, it's all about internalizing the character for me and doing all the preparation you can. So the day you first… — Donnie Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The red indicator light just came on. I'm looking at the run-time error report. It's like a mathematically precise way of saying,… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive. — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician... — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art.” — Lee Simonson 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
The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
