Neurotic Quotes - Page 2

• The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.

  Marcel Proust

  Suffering, Attention, Neurosis

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• The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

  Thomas Szasz

  Psychosis, Doubt, Neurosis

  Thomas Szasz (2017). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.141, Routledge

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• I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

  Anais Nin

  Ordinary World, Ecstasy, Tempo

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• Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

  Sigmund Freud

  Creativity, Ideas, Innovation

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Emotional, Pay, Bills

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.97, BookBaby

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• The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Rooms, Moments, Strikes

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Way

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.66, BookBaby

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• Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  People, Way, Odd

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Cutting, Half, Want

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.28, BookBaby

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• Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Remember

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

  Gene Tierney

  Fashion, Actors, Feels

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Class, Choices, Citizens

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Parent, Psychology

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three essays on the theory of sexuality”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Real, Fantasy, Strongest

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.57, BookBaby

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• You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.... Your every past action and thought have made you what you are.

  Charles R. Johnson

  Past, Teeth, Needs

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• I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Acting, Things To Do

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• The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Anxiety, Half, Drowning

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.105, BookBaby

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• The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Track, Enemy, Minutes

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

  William Glasser

  Victim, Passive, Over It

  "Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom". Book by William Glasser (p. 75), 1997.

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• My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

  James Earl Jones

  Grandmother, Thinking, Taught Us

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• A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

  Karl Abraham

  Work, Numbers, Able

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• The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Believe

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Rewards, Settling, Broke

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.97, BookBaby

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• Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Something New

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.64, BookBaby

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• The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Hate, Lying, Night

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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