Neurosis Quotes - page 2

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. (Sigmund Freud)
Happiness is your original nature, it is YOU, minus your neurosis. View quote
Robert Holden
Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis. View quote
Albert Ellis
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction. View quote
John Boyd Orr
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. View quote
Joanne Woodward
I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up. View quote
Patty Duke
I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work. View quote
Anna Silk
The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis. View quote
Arthur Adamov
There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate. View quote
Chaz Bono
You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them. View quote
Frank Langella
A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you. (Harold Ramis)
Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a 'Matrix' of you, so you're communicating with people all the time using Scientology. View quote
Jason Beghe
Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am. View quote
Lake Bell
You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me. View quote
Patrick Stewart
Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. View quote
Theodor Reik
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. View quote
Vincent D'Onofrio
... for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
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. View quote
Paulo Coelho
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. View quote
Viktor Frankl
Surely one of the reasons for our continued failures throughout these areas [Asia and the Middle East] has been our inability to understand how profound, how irrational, and how erratic has been the reaction generally of the respective peoples to the ideas and impulses that have come to them from the West in recent decades. This applies particularly to the intellectuals who play so prominent a part in political leadership and in the molding of public opinion. To ascertain the reasons for the intensely anti-American attitudes manifested by these people would be to delve deeply into psychological reactions and the origins of various forms of neuroses. I have thoughts about these matters, but will not take up your time with them here. Only one thing I would emphasize. The respective reactions are obviously emotional and subconscious, and not likely to be altered by any attempts on our part to meet them by any verbal appeal to rational processes. View quote
George F. Kennan
The important thing is not that the unconscious determines neurosis- of that one Freud can quite happily, like Pontius Pilot, wash his hands. Sooner or later, something would have been found, humeral determinate, for example- for Freud, it would be quite immaterial. For what the unconscious does it to show us the gap through which neurosis recreates a harmony with a real- a real that may not be determined. (Jacques Lacan)
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. View quote
Henry Miller
National isolation breeds national neurosis. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match. - Sleepless in Seattle. View quote
Nora Ephron
It was so frightening at the time to be seventeen and have heart monitors hooked up to you. That was the moment the songwriter in me was born. I discovered a whole other side of me. I came home that night and started writing lyrics. I discovered it all at once: It was like opening up a lockbox, and inside was a depth that I didn't even know I had as a person, or a writer - incredible creativity and vision and neurosis, complete neurosis. They all go together in a package. View quote
John Mayer