Neurosis Quotes

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.

The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.

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

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.

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.

A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.

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

Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.

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.

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

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

Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.

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

if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.

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.

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.

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

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

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

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.

Everything but happiness is neurosis.

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

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.

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.

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

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

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

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

I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.

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

Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.

Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."

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

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.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.

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