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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. — Carl Jung
Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor. — Laura Linney
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. — Henry Miller
As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses. — Daniel Radcliffe
Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. — Theodor Reik
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. — Bertrand Russell
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love,… — George Saunders
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions… — Thomas Szasz
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. — Paul Tillich
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the… — Sam Taylor-Wood
A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto… — Ayelet Waldman
The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since… — Robert Winston
I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world,… — Anais Nin
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers… — William Styron
...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the… — Hermann Hesse
Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear. — Wystan Hugh Auden
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be… — Carl Jung
For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. — Evelyn Waugh
We are loping sequences of chemical conversions, acting ourselves converted. We are twists of genes acting ourselves twisted; we are wicks of burning neuroses acting… — Gregory Maguire
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage,… — Carl Jung
Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study or kill me?"… — Gail Carriger
Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to… — Sigmund Freud
Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was… — Anne Fortier
Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to… — Hunter S. Thompson

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