Best Neurotic Thoughts
259 Neurotic quotes by 186 unique authors
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To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.
— Alfred Adler
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I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way…
— Tennessee Williams
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An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured…
— Simon Barnes
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Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in…
— Ed Bliss
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It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious…
— William Osler
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A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.
— Laura Schlessinger
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All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour,…
— Stephen Leacock
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I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic.
— Megan Fox
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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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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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I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself,…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
— William Glasser
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When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some…
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band…
— Stone Gossard
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And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic…
— Jenna Elfman
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I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
— Ralph Fiennes
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I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can…
— Bridget Fonda
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember…
— Lillian Hellman
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My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to…
— James Earl Jones
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A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
— Jonathan Kozol
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I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone…
— Anne Lamott
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A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the…
— Jerome Lawrence
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I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires.…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.
— Chris O'Dowd
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