Neurotic Quotes - Page 8

• But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

  Tom Robbins

  Civilization, Long, Neurosis

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.257, Bantam

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• I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed!

  Anthony de Mello

  Change, Selfish, Love You

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• When you are calm, quiet and sensitive then you can expand. But when you are irritated, phobic, fearful, insensitive, and neurotic, you can't achieve anything.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Irritated, Calm

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• I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn't come as second nature. I work at those kinds of films. It doesn't mean I can't do them - I've done two now, and I have a great time doing them, but I just find myself a little bit more neurotic.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Mean, Thinking, Two

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• I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

  Lake Bell

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Interesting

  "Lake Bell Dives Right In". Interview with Jillary Busis, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 29, 2011.

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• Differentiating from parental introjects and psychological defences based on the emotional pain of childhood is essential not only for neurotic or seriously disturbed individuals; it is a central developmental issue in every person’s life.

  Lisa Firestone

  Pain, Emotional, Issues

  Robert W. Firestone, Lisa Firestone, Joyce Catlett (2012). “The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation”, p.12, Routledge

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• You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

  Molly Harper

  Girl, Library, Librarian

  Molly Harper (2009). “Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

  Stephen Sondheim

  People, Beneath The Surface, Surface

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• Whereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things, I see my son's bright eyes and smile in the morning, and suddenly, I don't feel like I'm depressed anymore. There's nothing to be depressed about when you've got that.

  Corey Feldman

  Morning, Eye, Son

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• To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.

  Jacques Barzun

  Football, Distance, Games

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.

  Anais Nin

  Creative, Desire, Doe

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• If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic.

  Greg Child

  Children, Climbing, Poor

  Greg Child (1998). “Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas”, p.158, Mountaineers Books

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• We're all animals, but we're a different sort of animal. Maybe they're better than us. They're more loyal. They're more pure. They're more simple. They're not neurotic. Well, there are some neurotic dogs.

  Kevin Kline

  Dog, Animal, Simple

  "Kevin Kline Talks DARLING COMPANION, Charlie Kaufman’s FRANK OR FRANCIS, and His Oscar Short with Mike Myers". Press conference, collider.com. April 19, 2012.

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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 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'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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• They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.

  Hans Eysenck

  Mean, Years, Two

  Hans Jürgen Eysenck, Glenn Daniel Wilson (1973). “The experimental study of Freudian theories”, Methuen Publishing

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• 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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