Age Quote by Louis Kronenberger

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our…

— Louis Kronenberger

“There is a confusing dual structure in the relationship of the individual to history. Even the sensory certainties of suffering follow a predictable order…

— Andreas Bernard

“The alleged 'sensitivity' of neurotic people is matched by their egotism; they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they…

— Proust Marcel

“The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are…

— Marcel Proust

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical"…

— Susan Sontag

“Sicknesses, especially those affecting nerves and head, are signs that the defensive strength of the strong natures is lacking; precisely this is suggested by…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world…

— Anne Fortier

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay…

— Marcel Proust

“300.14* Hysterical neurosis, dissociative type* In the dissociative type, alterations may occur in the patient's state of consciousness or in his identity, to produce…

— American Psychiatric Association

Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion…

— Aberjhani

Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, tartrazine food colouring, dairy produce and…

— Stephen Fry

My childhood was marked by seizures, which my family interpreted as temper tantrums.

— Sylvia Fraser