Neurosis Quotes

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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

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

Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.

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 neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.

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.

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

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.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

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.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.

Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.

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.

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness.

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.

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.

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.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

Everything but happiness is neurosis.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

One of the keys to thinking big is total focus. I think of it almost as a controlled neurosis, which is a quality I've noticed in many highly successful entrepreneurs.

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

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.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

If you can't handle your neurosis, your neurosis will handle you.

Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.