The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so. — Francesca Annis Copy Share Image
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody,… — John Stamos Copy Share Image
I have all my ex-girlfriends lumped into one big girlfriend I called M.A.N.D.Y.: My, Another Neurotic Disappointment? Yes. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ? — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you? — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion. — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull-… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
If it's a 50-seat theater, I am neurotic about whether I'm doing an honest performance. Sometimes I walk away happy enough with… — Cameron Britton Copy Share Image
A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
Know that the most neurotic, most ugly situation is simply testing you. It is testing capacity, beyond his control, your flexibility, your… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi 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
One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patient may make astute observations about himself… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Identify the problem.”) I love the late Japanese psychotherapist Shoma Morita's advice to stop trying to fix yourself and start living instead:… — Shoma Morita Copy Share Image
I was afraid that I would find out that I didn't work hard, that I wasn't a very good mother. I was… — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
Contrary to the image of a neurotic man created in some quarters, I feel very much at peace with myself. — Noel Edmonds Copy Share Image
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. — Sylvia Plath 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
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I'm quite neurotic, usually. But when it comes to work, I become extremely focused. — Julie Delpy 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
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
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
Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing. — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
