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153 Neurosis quotes by 114 unique authors

Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom. — Pema Chodron
We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous… — Carl Jung
Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis. — Thomas Merton
Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary. — Chogyam Trungpa
I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a… — Joanne Woodward
Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure and power by… — Zelda Fichandler
But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements, yet not so… — Leo Buscaglia
Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will claim us and… — Robert A. Johnson
It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define… — Sigmund Freud
The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales,… — Jacques Lacan
A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis… — Sigmund Freud
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to… — Lionel Trilling
...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness,… — Anne Fortier
And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short… — William Styron
If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are… — Margaret Mead
You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.... Your every past action… — Charles R. Johnson
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. — Norman O. Brown
Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself. — Carl Jung
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it. — Mignon McLaughlin
Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up. — Judith Viorst
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a… — Sigmund Freud
Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them. — Rajneesh
But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization. — Tom Robbins
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick — Ben Jonson

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