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259 Neurotic quotes by 186 unique authors

You can party, but I better not catch you drunk. (Wulf) (Chris rolled his eyes, then bent down to said to Cassandra’s stomach...) Be wise,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies. — Kate Morton
Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone… — Brian Weiss
The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still… — Andy Warhol
But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they… — Francois Truffaut
I had taken the photograph from afar (distance being the basic glitch in our relationship), using my Nikon and zoom lens while hiding behind a… — Joan Bauer
The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is a unique person.… — M. Scott Peck
The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common. — Truman Capote
I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people… — Anne Lamott
The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat,… — John Bradshaw
As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock… — Libba Bray
Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution? — Rita Mae Brown
I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of neurosis… — Doris Lessing
Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to… — Agatha Christie
For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for… — Anais Nin
The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not… — Alan Watts
We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't. — Jeanette Winterson
Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos. — Anne Lamott
The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation. — Frantz Fanon
..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures.… — Anais Nin
Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation. — Renata Adler
8. Fact: It is a bad idea to date a known cheater, because even if he doesn't cheat on you, you will always know he's… — E. Lockhart
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself. — Sigmund Freud
As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem. — Candace Bushnell
I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird. — Kurt Cobain

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