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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs. — Tamsin Egerton
I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it,… — Viola Davis
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
My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep… — Mike Brearley
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. — Lionel Trilling
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. — Sylvia Plath
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered around… — Colson Whitehead
It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician... — William C. Bryant
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money… — Charles Caleb Colton
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
They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the… — Hans Eysenck
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
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer. — Carl Jung
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. — Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport. — Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match. — Mignon McLaughlin
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
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic. — Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all. — Mignon McLaughlin
Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke. — Mignon McLaughlin
Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle. — Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. — Mignon McLaughlin
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin
A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily… — Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so. — Mignon McLaughlin

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