Neurosis Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.

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

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.

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

I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

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

The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.

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

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

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

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

I've done it with all my films. I always keep an eye on the first time I show it because... I don't know. Neurosis.

I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.