Neurotic Quotes

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. (Robert A. Heinlein)
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. View quote
Sylvia Plath
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface. View quote
Stephen Sondheim
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. View quote
Lionel Trilling
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. View quote
Anatole France
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. View quote
Thomas Szasz
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life. View quote
Sigmund Freud
I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men. View quote
Max Hastings
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. View quote
Karl Abraham
I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time. View quote
Phil Donahue
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive. (Susie Bright)
The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation. View quote
Frantz Fanon
We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do. View quote
Ralph Fiennes
We are all our own graveyards I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived; and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present. View quote
Clive Barker
I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east. View quote
Quentin Crisp
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions, by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis. View quote
Sigmund Freud
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis. View quote
Sigmund Freud
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. View quote
Martha Beck
The neurotic ... is not the voluntary happy seeker of truth, but the forced, unhappy finder of it. View quote
Otto Rank
...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic. (Sonja Lyubomirsky)
Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic. View quote
Sonja Lyubomirsky
I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed. View quote
Tim Robbins
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. View quote
Hans Eysenck
In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients. View quote
Hans Eysenck