Neurotic Quotes - Page 7

• Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

  Judith Viorst

  Growing Up, Neurosis, Golden

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from the power of them Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book and turn over the pages and for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then you will lose your soul — for in that book is your soul.

  Carl Jung

  Book, Soul, Vision

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• Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Teaching, Views

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, Ch. 8, 1927.

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• It's neurotic fat women who hate me--they're stupid

  Kate Moss

  Hate, Stupid, Fats

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• Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Nerd, Fans, Needy

  "‘No, I don’t paint anymore’ – Bookmunch Classic Interview: Jonathan Lethem". Interview with Peter Wild, bookmunch.wordpress.com. July 1, 2004.

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• Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from growing the very moment something unpleasant, something painful comes up. At that moment we become phobic, we run away, we desensitize ourselves. Neurotic suffering is suffering in imagination, suffering in fantasy.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Running, Self, Games

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• You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.

  David Lee Roth

  Sex, Hippie, Rocks

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• The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.

  John Fowles

  Writing, Ignorance, Reality

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• I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.

  Leslie Jamison

  Knowing, Anxiety, Horizon

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• A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

  Cyril Connolly

  Mistake, Reality, Interesting

  The Unquiet Grave Pt II

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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, Neurosis, Might

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• Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.

  Ntozake Shange

  People, Feelings, Our Society

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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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• Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.

  Susie Bright

  Self, People, Doubt

  Boston Phoenix Interview with Tamara Wieder, February 11, 2005.

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• For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Devil, Backbone, Pressured

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 3, 2003.

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

  Tamsin Egerton

  Children, Danger, Stairs

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• I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.

  Viola Davis

  Actors, Miserable, Deals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.

  Joanne Woodward

  Important, Neurosis, Sense Of Humor

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• My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep going to the front door to make certain that he's locked it.

  Mike Brearley

  Men, Doors, Umpires

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• I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered around lying on your couch in a neurotic stupor all day, I'd take an interest.

  Colson Whitehead

  Sports, Lying, Athlete

  Colson Whitehead (2014). “The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death”, p.41, Anchor

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• It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

  William C. Bryant

  Physicians, Medical, Said

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• It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  People, May, Medical

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short on rewards and that what they write is a product of their own neuroses, in its silly way the magazine is merely stating the status quo and obvious truth. The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

  William Styron

  Silly, Writing, Today Life

  "Conversations with William Styron".

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