Neurotic Quotes - page 4

Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions. (Erich Fromm)
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. View quote
Jerome Lawrence
Without my work I would be a neurotic mess. View quote
Moira Lister
The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport. (Mignon McLaughlin)
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin