Neurosis Quotes - Page 2

• Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Psychology, Cold, Made

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.58, BookBaby

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

  Henry Miller

  Knowledge, Tree, Guilt

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

  Joseph Heller

  Funny, Success, Suicide

  1975 Interview in Playboy, Jun.

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• 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.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  People, Hook, Ends

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• The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Long, Expectations

  Sigmund Freud (1965). “New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis”

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• If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

  Sylvia Plath

  Two, Hell, Bell Jar

  The Bell Jar ch. 8 (1963)

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• 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.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Mad, Hatred

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• Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Childhood, Religion

  SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

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• Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

  Marcel Proust

  Lying, Doctors, Deceit

  Le Cote de Guermantes Pt 1

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• It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child - in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

  James Dean

  Children, School, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.

  Lewis Mumford

  Order, Issues, Finals

  "The Conduct Of Life". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter: "The Fulfillment of Man", 1951.

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• Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

  Norman O. Brown

  Psychology, Progress, Society

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.18, Wesleyan University Press

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• I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

  Arthur Miller

  Love

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 5: The Last Yankee; The Ride Down Mount Morgan; Almost Everybody Wins”, p.61, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• I go to an analyst not because I need to but because I choose to and maybe that's the difference. I don't think I have any huge neurosis, but I have questions for which I seek if not answers at least a guidance toward the answers.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Thinking, Differences, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Struggle, Differences

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America”, p.26, Open Road Media

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

  Arthur Adamov

  Knowledge, Use, Knows

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

  Theodor Reik

  Good Love, Romantic Love, And Love

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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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• 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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