Neurosis Quotes - Page 2

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

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.

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

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.

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.

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

Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

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

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

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

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

Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

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