Best Neurotic Words
259 Neurotic quotes by 186 unique authors
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The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone — until they do.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.
— Judith Viorst
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Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from…
— Frederick Salomon Perls
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In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the…
— Alfred Adler
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A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with…
— Cyril Connolly
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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
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