Psychology-quotes Quote by Carl Jung

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

— Tom Robbins

If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

— Nancy Hale

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed…

— Cyril Connolly

“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal…

— Aldous Huxley

I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are…

— Marcel Proust

“The alleged 'sensitivity' of neurotic people is matched by their egotism; they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they…

— Proust Marcel

“What if the theories in psychology that dominate our mainstream culture are flawed, rather than the people they diagnose? That we close our eyes…

— Dr. Kristen Lee

“If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of…

— Shannon L. Alder

Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and is therefore…

— Alfred Adler

“The concept of normal is a strange thing. If a person is persuasive enough, they can tip you on your head and make you…

— Anni Taylor

In fact, when we as neuro-typical people encounter a person with autism spectrum syndrome who's always been that way it is that we have…

— Tamlyn Tomita