Words matter. These are the best Neurosis Quotes from famous people such as David Jason, Lawrence Durrell, Alison Moyet, William Styron, Abraham Maslow, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t watch ‘The X Factor’ any more. Why do I want to see someone say the same old thing – it’s all they’ve ever dreamed about – then lose and burst into tears and go into neurosis? They just want to be famous – it doesn’t matter how.
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.
I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself.
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis.
You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
I believe that even the worst people on the planet believe that they are somehow justified in their neurosis.
The impetus for ‘The Sisters Brothers’ was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there’s a minimal amount of it.
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.
Love is universal, luckily, but also in general I’ve found that whenever I’ve been the most specific in my stand-up, revealing some weird neurosis or quirk I’m ashamed of, that’s what people relate to the most. Specificity is key!
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
Neurosis, an obsession with stupidly named food, bookishness – these are all OK to class as attributes that come hand in hand with a name that ends in ‘berg’; the only possible exception being the money thing, although clearly we are better at accountancy.
The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.
Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that’s just in the suitcase when you’re an actor.
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.
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.
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
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.
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.
I think, with most writers, their neurosis is finishing things. I have a different neurosis. I’m terribly anxious when it’s not finished. Then I become really difficult to live with.
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.
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.
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?
National isolation breeds national neurosis.
I was a heathen Jewess with no bat mitzvah. Only the neurosis, the brown hair, and the self-deprecating humor. But being one of the only Jewish kids in my WASPy hometown definitely informed my perspective on the humor of being an outsider.
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
