Air Quote by Jerome Lawrence

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

— Carl Jung

“Do you know the difference between neurotics and psychotics?” “Neurotics build castles in the sky; psychotics move into them.”

— Tanya Thompson

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

The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

— Thomas Szasz

A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.

— William S Burroughs

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…

— Doris Lessing

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

— Rita Rudner

“Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in…

— Sigmund Freud

You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate…

— Abraham Maslow

Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in…

— Sigmund Freud

Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not.

— Emma Forrest