Neurosis famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.
-- Albert Ellis -
Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.
-- Albert Ellis -
There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.
-- Anais Nin -
The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent.
-- Andrew Graham-Dixon -
My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
-- Anish Kapoor -
...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.
-- Anne Fortier -
The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.
-- Arthur Adamov -
Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
-- Chogyam Trungpa -
If you can't handle your neurosis, your neurosis will handle you.
-- Chuck Spezzano -
So maybe it’s just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are starting to nurture these neuroses of ours, and treating them like pets. That can’t be a good thing.
-- Craig Finn -
Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.
-- David Brin -
the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.
-- Elsa Maxwell -
In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.
-- Ethan Hawke -
our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses.
-- Fran Drescher -
You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.
-- Frank Langella -
A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.
-- James Hollis -
I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.
-- Joanne Woodward -
I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise.
-- Joe Satriani -
Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.
-- Judith Viorst -
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
-- Karl Abraham -
A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.
-- Kenneth Tynan -
Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.
-- Lake Bell -
Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.
-- Laura Linney -
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
And I think for me theres a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.
-- Liev Schreiber -
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
-- Lionel Trilling -
A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.
-- Marie-Louise von Franz -
Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.
-- Marie-Louise von Franz -
I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.
-- Mel Brooks -
I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.
-- Michael Haneke -
Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
-- Milton Sapirstein -
The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.
-- Natalie Goldberg -
A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
-- Oscar Isaac -
I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up
-- Patty Duke -
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
-- Paul Tillich -
if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.
-- Paulo Coelho -
I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if you hear an answer.
-- Rachel Weisz -
Happiness is your original nature, it is YOU, minus your neurosis
-- Robert Holden -
The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since Sigmund Freud, many people have associated religiosity with neurosis and mental illness.
-- Robert Winston -
Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
-- Sigmund Freud -
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
-- Sigmund Freud -
Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.
-- Sigmund Freud -
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.
-- Sigmund Freud -
Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity
-- Sigmund Freud -
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.
-- Sigmund Freud -
Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
-- Theodor Reik -
Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.
-- W. H. Auden -
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
-- William Styron -
In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.
-- Jim Piddock -
I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.
-- Jim Shaw -
I've done it with all my films. I always keep an eye on the first time I show it because... I don't know. Neurosis.
-- Ti West -
People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.
-- Vincent D'Onofrio -
Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."
-- Fleur Adcock
