Neurotic Quotes

Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.

Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of.

A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.

Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.

Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.

The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I feel alive. Whereas when I'm not writing, I feel like your common every-day neurotic.

The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion.

Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat.

I guess I can be a little neurotic sometimes, but can't everybody?

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.

I have no religion, but I can't escape being extremely Jewish ethnically - that is, culturally. In other words, I'm not religious, but I worry and I'm neurotic. And I'm very good with money.

I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking.

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

I can honestly say this industry hasn't made me neurotic about my looks, except maybe my weight. I hope my clothes kind of reflect that. They're meant to make you feel good.

As an artist you can use your own discomfort and neuroses and difficulties and at least transform them into something else. Without that you're just neurotic and uncomfortable.

[Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something.

Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.

I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic.

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.

Healthy thinking is a habit, just like neurotic thinking is a habit.

The Decision...I wiped my hands on my pinaforenow sullied and stainednot crisp or pressedas it had been before...

The tenacity with which the neurotic adheres to any attitude is a sure indication that the attitude fulfills functions which seem indispensable in the framework of his neurosis.

You drive me crazy!""You were always crazy. I just highlight it.