Best Neurosis Quotations
153 Neurosis quotes by 114 unique authors
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You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.
— Frank Langella
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I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating…
— Mae Whitman
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I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the curriculum in Trend…
— Dave Barry
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Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.
— Lake Bell
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I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It's just not the same thing with men.…
— Lizzy Caplan
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In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that…
— Ethan Hawke
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The more neurosis the more wisdom.
— Pema Chodron
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This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs…
— Peter Dobereiner
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As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I…
— Federico Fellini
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The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or…
— Abraham Maslow
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Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Everything but happiness is neurosis.
— Anais Nin
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I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving…
— Rita Mae Brown
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task…
— Anatole France
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
— Sigmund Freud
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
— Sigmund Freud
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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend…
— Sigmund Freud
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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating…
— Sigmund Freud
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To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
— James Dean
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It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
— Lawrence Durrell
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You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were…
— Fred Durst
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National isolation breeds national neurosis.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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