Neurotic Quotes

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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ?

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

Stay neurotic. Stay frustrated. Stay emotional. Stay excited. Your life is happening.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

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.

Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another.

Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

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

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.

I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same.

Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. You don't want to work with people who don't care or who are acting out some neurotic, crazy thesis on the set.

To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.

Know that the most neurotic, most ugly situation is simply testing you. It is testing capacity, beyond his control, your flexibility, your adjustment and your character.

Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.

Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius.

It's neurotic fat women who hate me--they're stupid

Every neurotic is partly in the right.

"My door is always open - bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.

The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.

Knowing we’re saved by grace but still living under the law makes for a spiritually neurotic person.

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.

There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.