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I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings… — Stephen Sondheim
Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires. — Anais Nin
One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest possible position within… — Konrad Lorenz
Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain. — Karl Abraham
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic… — Karl Abraham
I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me. — Laura Marling
As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only… — Ridley Pearson
I guess I can be a little neurotic sometimes, but can't everybody? — Rebecca Romijn
Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am. — Curtis Sittenfeld
During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid. — David Sylvian
Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am. — Roland Barthes
I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let yourself get over… — Andie MacDowell
My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who… — John Hurt
I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with… — Anthony de Mello
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull. — Louis Auchincloss
Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic… — Jon Ronson
I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting. — Lake Bell
I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn't come as… — Elisha Cuthbert
I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown. — Duff Goldman
I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy… — Charlie Hunnam
I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us. — Sigmund Freud
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic. — Dick Cavett
Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way. — Manohla Dargis
By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing. — Charlotte Rampling
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law. — Karl A. Menninger

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