Neurosis Quotes

• Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, People, Personality

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• Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Attitude, Meditation Practice, Friendly

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• If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

  Ben Jonson

  Sick, Illness, Miscellaneous

  Ben Jonson (1999). “Five Plays”, p.78, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Theodor Reik

  Good Love, Romantic Love, And Love

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• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Real, Long, Purpose

  Sigmund Freud (2008). “General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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

  Paul Tillich

  Way, Avoiding

  The Courage to Be pt. 2, ch. 3 (1952)

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• Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

  Mary McCarthy

  Science, Men, Discovery

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

  Richard Brautigan

  Technology, World, Gallows

  1970 The Abortion: An Historical Romance.

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• Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

  Marcel Proust

  Religion, Literature, World

  Le Cote de Guermantes Pt 1

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• 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.

  Ethan Hawke

  Self, Perfection, Hollywood

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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 has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

  Thomas Szasz

  Psychosis, Doubt, Problem

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

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

  Arthur Adamov

  Knowledge, Use, Knows

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• I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Life, Hate, Water

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.2, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

  Georges Bataille

  Blood, Giving, Battle

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• 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, Pay

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• Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Life, Mean

  SIGMUND FREUD (1933). “NEW INTRODUCTORY LECTURES ON PSYCHO-ANALYSIS”

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• Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities... If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mean, Maturity, Men

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis". Book by Sigmund Freud (Lecture 35 "A Philosophy of Life"), 1933.

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• The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

  William Styron

  Writing, Age, Literature

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.19, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

  James Dean

  Thinking, Actors, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Fighting, Scar

  Erich Fromm (1947). “Man for Himself”

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• And I think for me theres a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Should, Where You Are

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. May 30, 2002.

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• As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Disease, Checks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.24, Harvard University Press

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• Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.

  Sigmund Freud

  Keys, Doors, Able

  Sigmund Freud (1997). “Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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