Top 90 Neurotic Quotes

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.

I used to be neurotic. I didn’t like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.

I’m a neurotic Jew who doesn’t want loans. I can’t even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown.

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

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

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I’ve developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway.

Whereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things, I see my son’s bright eyes and smile in the morning, and suddenly, I don’t feel like I’m depressed anymore. There’s nothing to be depressed about when you’ve got that.

Every night, I will write until I’m done. Until my eyes are burning and tearing, and I can’t see the computer screen anymore, till I finish the script, till I get to the point where I’m happy stopping, till I get everything off my plate, because I hate going to bed with a full plate. It makes me very neurotic.

Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It’s been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.

I’m completely neurotic, totally anxious and high-strung all the time.

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

I’m too neurotic to ever feel good. If I ever felt good, I think something horrible would happen.

First of all, I really appreciate what I’ve got and I know that we’re all sort of on borrowed time. I think I’m also kind of neurotic and scared – I never feel, like, ‘Oh, I got this on lock, no problem.’ I think that combined with having such an amazing team that are bringing in fresh ideas is what’s made it work.

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing ‘Annie Get Your Gun.’

So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.

I’m very neurotic about shaving. I shave first thing in the morning before a shoot, and if I have dinner that night, I have to shave again.

My mother’s father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

And I know I’m paranoid and neurotic, I’ve made a career out of it.

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

I’m a fairly neurotic person.

We’re all animals, but we’re a different sort of animal. Maybe they’re better than us. They’re more loyal. They’re more pure. They’re more simple. They’re not neurotic. Well, there are some neurotic dogs.

We grew up watching Woody Allen and Albert Brooks movies, and we see this neurotic, annoying, unlikeable male at the center of a story, and people root for him anyway. I think that’s really what we have been craving as women is the hero who doesn’t look perfect and doesn’t act perfectly.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I’m not neurotic about food. My rule is, don’t let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.

I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image.

I like the mad and neurotic pace of television.

They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

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.

I’m always looking for a sign – not in a spooky, supernatural way, but in a ‘neurotic writer’ kind of way.