Neurosis Quotes

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

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.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

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.

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

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.

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

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.

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

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.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

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.

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

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

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

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

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.