Quote by P.D. James Download Open image ““I have enough trouble living with my own neurosis without coping with other people’s.”” — P.D. James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I'm neurotic--in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.” — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“I’m trying to overcome my OCD by replacing my neurosis with three other letters.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“You are my nervous system, which I have grown myself over billions of years so that I could finally have the opportunity to marvel… — Bohdan Tanchyk Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Trying to live up to what everyone else thinks and wants for you is a recipe for perpetual anxiety, self-doubt, and a generally unhappy… — Valorie Burton Copy Share Image
“Life has enough obstacles planned for you. Stop putting up your own and just live it.” — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“I certainly find it difficult to relate to people who seem incapable of doing anything on their own, needing company even whilst simply watching… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
“You need to be flagrantly insouciant. You care way too much. And because of that you will be paralyzed for life and miss out… — Wendy Wunder Copy Share Image
“Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“I was like a little boy showing off my toys, desperate to win approval.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“Pleasure need not be less keen because there will be centuries of springs to come, their blossom unseen by human eyes, the walls will… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“What do you mean by sound government?' Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime, a reasonably… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“(A murderer about their victim:) "He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“had found it difficult to sleep since my husband had been killed, and now I lay rigid under the canopy of the four-poster re-living the extraordinary day, piecing together the anomalies, the small incidents, the clues, to form a satisfying pattern, trying to impose order on disorder. I think that is what I’ve been wanting to do all my life.… — P.D. James Copy Share
“It had always been a part of his job which he found difficult, the total lack of privacy for the victim. Murder stripped away more than life itself. The body was parceled, labelled, dissected; address books, diaries, confidential letters, every part of the victim's life was sought out and scrutinized. Alien hands moved among the clothes, picked up and examined… — P.D. James Copy Share
“On the whole I’m glad; you can’t mourn for unborn grandchildren when there never was a hope of them. This planet is doomed anyway. Eventually the sun will explode or cool and one small insignificant particle of the universe will disappear with only a tremble. If man is doomed to perish, then universal infertility is as painless a way as… — P.D. James Copy Share
“Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt; it was often the most innocent who were the most terrified.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“The young seldom lie convincingly. They haven’t had time to practise like the rest of us.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“It is doubtful whether Mrs Bennet missed the company of her second daughter, but her husband certainly did. Elizabeth had always been his favourite… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“She had quickly learned that to show unhappiness was to risk the loss of love.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
