Neurosis Quotes - Page 5

• A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

  James Hollis

  True Nature

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• Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  People, Balance, Mature

  Marie-Louise Von Franz (1999). “Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche”, p.234, Shambhala Publications

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• The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.

  Edward Abbey

  Daughter, Mother, Men

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• One of the keys to thinking big is total focus. I think of it almost as a controlled neurosis, which is a quality I've noticed in many highly successful entrepreneurs.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, Thinking, Keys

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.47, Ballantine Books

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• Happiness is your original nature, it is YOU, minus your neurosis

  Robert Holden

  Positivity, Minus, Originals

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• Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

  Camille Paglia

  Vegetables, Feminist, Feminism

  1992 'The Return of Carry Nation: Catharine Mackinnon and Andrea Dworkin', in Playboy, Oct. CollectedinVamps andTramps (1994).

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• In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.

  Mark Epstein

  Self, Land, Feelings

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• I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Novelists, Intellect

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.31, Bantam

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• A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  People, Might, States

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• I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise.

  Joe Satriani

  Funny, Inspiring, Way

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• I don't need a psychiatrist.
  I can sort out my fears with my work.
  That's the privilege of all artists,
  to be able to sort out their unhappiness
  and their neuroses in order
  to create something.

  Michael Haneke

  Artist, Order, Needs

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• We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.

  Terence McKenna

  Pipeline, Absence, Victim

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• Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Creativity, Simple

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• I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if you hear an answer.

  Rachel Weisz

  Funny, Doe, Answers

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• So maybe it’s just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are starting to nurture these neuroses of ours, and treating them like pets. That can’t be a good thing.

  Craig Finn

  Worry, Pet, Good Things

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• In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Practice, Meditation, Mind

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• Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness and our confusion, and therefore it doesn’t do any good to try to get rid of our so-called negative aspects, because in that process we also get rid of our basic wonderfulness. We can lead our life so as to become more awake to who we are and what we’re doing rather than trying to improve or change or get rid of who we are or what we’re doing. The key is to wake up, to become more alert, more inquisitive and curious about ourselves.

  Pema Chodron

  Keys, Confusion, Trying

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.

  Florence King

  Stress, Simple, Orchids

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• 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.

  Patrick Stewart

  Nice, Character, Quality

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• Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Desire, Novelists, United States

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• If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as being conspicuously better than the peer group. The culture tries to make the child with a gift into a one-sided person, to penalize him at every turn, to cause him trouble in making friends and to create conditions conducive to the development of a neurosis. Neither teachers, the parents of other children, nor the child peers will tolerate a Wunderkind.

  Margaret Mead

  Motivational, Teacher, Children

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• Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.

  Pema Chodron

  Made, Materials, Ifs

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure and power by enabling people to know reality...Art is a necessity because it is a way of knowing...Is the need for truth physiological? Art exists out of time...images may be different bu there is always a repetition- a thread.

  Zelda Fichandler

  Dream, Art, Reality

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• Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.

  Mason Cooley

  Boredom, Cures

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• A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

  Sigmund Freud

  Psychosis, Ego, Narcissistic

  Sigmund Freud (1950). “Collected Papers ...”

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