Neurotic Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• 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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• A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Mean, Doctors, Anxiety

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.89, BookBaby

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• At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Affair, Love Affair

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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• It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

  Alfred Adler

  Attitude, Real, Thumbs Down

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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.

  Carl Jung

  People, Wrong Answers, Inadequate

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Eye, Perfect, Vision

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

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• 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, Neurosis, Cold

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

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• The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

  Lionel Trilling

  Fantasy, Poet, Mark

  Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.45, New York Review of Books

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• I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.

  Tim Robbins

  Confidence, Thinking, Criticism

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• I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.

  Bridget Fonda

  Mistake, Making Mistakes

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

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• The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Airports, Circles

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.59, BookBaby

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• Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Anxiety, Accidents

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.67, BookBaby

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• All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.

  Deborah Kerr

  Sorry, Successful, People

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• The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

  William Styron

  Writing, Age, Neurosis

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

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• Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Missing, Shooting, Barrels

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

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• All currency is neurotic currency.

  Norman O. Brown

  Currency

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.271, Wesleyan University Press

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• As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Humans

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.71, BookBaby

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• Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Touching, Middle, Back Again

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.65, BookBaby

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• I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

  Anais Nin

  Ordinary World, Want, Proportion

  Diary entries, March 25, 1933.

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• Identify the problem.”)
  I love the late Japanese psychotherapist Shoma Morita's advice to stop trying to fix yourself and start living instead: “Give up on yourself. Begin taking action now, while being neurotic or imperfect, or a procrastinator, or unhealthy, or lazy, or any other label by which you inaccurately describe yourself. Go ahead and be the best imperfect person you can be and get started on those things you want to accomplish before you die.

  Shoma Morita

  Being Yourself, Giving Up, Imperfect Person

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• The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Mean, Doors, Bars

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

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• The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Hate, Golden, Neighbor

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

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• So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

  Gene Wilder

  Ideas, Trying, Too Much

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

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