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153 Neurosis quotes by 114 unique authors

I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis. — Tom Robbins
Education, like neurosis, begins at home. — Milton Sapirstein
A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to… — Marie-Louise von Franz
I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then… — Joe Satriani
We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen… — Terence McKenna
My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis — Anish Kapoor
Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how… — Marcel Proust
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a… — Lewis Mumford
I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this… — Luke Rhinehart
As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and… — James Agee
Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And… — Carl Jung
Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis. — Sigmund Freud
Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce… — Sigmund Freud
I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I… — Diego Rivera
Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods. — Rollo May
I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if you hear an… — Rachel Weisz
So maybe it’s just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are starting to nurture… — Craig Finn
In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than… — Chogyam Trungpa
Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness… — Pema Chodron
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of… — Florence King
You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a… — Patrick Stewart
Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining. — Albert Ellis
We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning. — Albert Ellis
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up… — John Boyd Orr
New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't… — Umberto Eco

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