Neurotic Quotes - Page 5

• Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Character, Thinking, Two

  "Curtis Sittenfeld: Fictionalizing A First Lady". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 13, 2008.

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• During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

  David Sylvian

  Japan, Lifetime, Paranoid

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• I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.

  Andie MacDowell

  Running, Work Out, Machines

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• Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Suffering, Doe

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.68, BookBaby

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• I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

  Dick Cavett

  Loss, Losing, Problem

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.77, Macmillan

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• By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Trying, Desperate, Tragic

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.

  Alfred Adler

  Self, Indulge In, Example

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• 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.

  William Osler

  Men, Mind, Ambitious

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• Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Song, Hate, Quarrels

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• 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.

  Tom Robbins

  Stupid, Intuition, Males

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• 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.

  Robert B. Weide

  Quirky, Answers, Surprise

  "Director Robert Weide Talks WOODY ALLEN: A DOCUMENTARY, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, and His Kurt Vonnegut Documentary". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another.

  Karen Horney

  Crush, May, Helpful

  Karen Horney (2013). “Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS”, p.240, Routledge

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• Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Country, Thinking, Doubt

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.55, BookBaby

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• 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.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Analysts, Psychiatry, Ifs

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.45, BookBaby

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• When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Fire, House, Pressure

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• After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Friendly, Doe, Tantrums

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.55, BookBaby

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• Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years it was a compliment. It meant, 'One can plainly see you are sensitive, intense, and interesting, and therefore neurotic.' Only the dullest of clods trudged around without a neurosis.

  Barbara Holland

  Years, Interesting, Noses

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

  Karen Horney

  Conflict, Human Life, Let Me

  Karen Horney (2013). “Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS”, p.23, Routledge

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• Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

  Carson McCullers

  Manhattan, Brooklyn, Brilliant

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

  Tom Baker

  Reading, Thinking, Scripts

  "Interview: Doctor Who star Tom Baker". Interview with Paul Whitelaw, www.scotsman.com. August 20, 2009.

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• I have no religion, but I can't escape being extremely Jewish ethnically - that is, culturally. In other words, I'm not religious, but I worry and I'm neurotic. And I'm very good with
  money.

  Sarah Silverman

  Religious, Worry, Very Good

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• I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Children, Danger, Stairs

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• I was only in the public eye because I was annoying. You know how neurotic people may ask for one thing when they may really want another thing? It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.

  Bradford Cox

  Eye, People, Attention

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Reality

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• To be born as a human being is a rare thing, something to be grateful for. But being born as a human being is worthless if you spend your whole life in a mental hospital. It is worthless if you worry about not having money. It is worthless if you become neurotic because you cannot get a prestigious job. It is worthless if you weep because you lose your girlfriend.

  Kodo Sawaki

  Girlfriend, Jobs, Grateful

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