Neurosis Quotes

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

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.

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.

Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

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.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

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.

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.

Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs.

Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

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.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.

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.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

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.

The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.

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.

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.

Happiness is your original nature, it is YOU, minus your neurosis

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing."

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.

...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.

our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses.

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing.

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.

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

The neuroses parody the virtues.

Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.

Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them.