A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
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.
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
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.
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.
Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.
Knowing we’re saved by grace but still living under the law makes for a spiritually neurotic person.
The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.
An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005
If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.
Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.
After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does.
Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.
By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.
Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way.
When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?
It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.
A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.
In general, I've found female protagonists more intriguing to work with than males. I cherish women and have always preferred their company, reveling in their perfumes, their contours, their finer-grained sensibilities, lunar intuitions, nurturing instincts and relatively unfettered emotions--although I'm certainly not unaware that there are plenty of neurotic, uptight, stupid women in the world.
Everybody always asks me what the big surprises were that I discovered about Woody and I never have a good stock answer for that, I never know quite what to tell them other than generally that he's much less neurotic and quirky than I would have expected.
Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.
Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.
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