Neurosis Quotes - Page 8

• Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs.

  Peter Dobereiner

  Golf, Water, Jelly

  Peter Dobereiner (1973). “The glorious world of golf”

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• If you can't handle your neurosis, your neurosis will handle you.

  Chuck Spezzano

  Positivity, Handle, Ifs

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• Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Understanding, Someday

  Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

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• If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses.

  Federico Fellini

  People, Judging, Hypocrisy

  "I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon". Book edited by Damian Pettigrew, December 1, 2003.

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• Everything but happiness is neurosis.

  Anais Nin

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 15, 1936.

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• Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

  Henry Miller

  Sports, Suicide, Fashion

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.177, New Directions Publishing

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• When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence.

  Henry Miller

  Psychosis, Silence, Fans

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• Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistook for energy. There was, rather, a tensile excitement in the air which made one think - made me think for many years - that time spent asleep in New York was somehow time wasted. Whether this thought has lengthened or shortened my life I shall never know, but it has certainly colored it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  New York, Thinking, Air

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.195, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of these spirits or other types of entities. And because we've denied them, we may have opened the gates for them to manipulate us in a lot of ways.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Culture, May, Patterns

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.

  Richard Harris

  Grief, Swim, Pool

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• Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.

  Erich Fromm

  Character, Successful, Battle

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.387, Open Road Media

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• The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses have the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into the situation of his accident, a situation from which he wakes up in another fright.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Wake Up, May

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Memories, Thinking, Suffering

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Business, Men, Blood

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• I have a great editor and I enjoy, in a masochistic way, being ruthless about my own performance. How do I know, but I think I'm quite good at saying, "That's no good. That's no good. That's it. That's it. That's good." And I'm with the editor who goes, "No, I think you're wrong. That's not your best." There's an initial point in the editing, if you're directing yourself, especially in my case, where you go, "Ouch, ouch, ouch, I can't watch this." And then, there's a point where you become hard-nosed and just take your neurosis away and go, "What's working? That's okay. That's okay. We can lose that, and lose that." You get objective about it.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Editors, Editing, Ouch

  "Ralph Fiennes Talks THE INVISIBLE WOMAN, Acting and Directing, Editing His Performance, and THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 23, 2013.

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• I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.

  Mel Brooks

  Wind, People, Talent

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mean, Practice, Confusion

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art”, p.143, Shambhala Publications

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• Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in depressing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world in a delusional manner - which presupposes an intimidation of the intelligence. At this price, by forcibly fixing them in a state of psychical infantilism and by drawing them into a mass-delusion, religion succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis. But hardly anything more.

  Sigmund Freud

  Depressing, Real, Play

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Expectations, Needs, Pandas

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• the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Reality, Moats, Wealth

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”

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• our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses.

  Fran Drescher

  Compatibility

  Fran Drescher (2002). “Cancer Schmancer”

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• Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a 'Matrix' of you, so you're communicating with people all the time using Scientology.

  Jason Beghe

  Psychosis, People, Promise

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

  Oscar Isaac

  Personality, Ego, Dishes

  "An epic interview with ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ star Oscar Isaac". Interview with Kristopher Tapley, uproxx.com. November 26, 2013.

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• Im a huge fan of The Odd Couple, yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.

  David Alan Basche

  Couple, Guy, Trying

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• Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

  Martin Amis

  Sound, Noses, Noise

  1995 The Information, pt.3.

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