Neurosis Quotes

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

Everything but happiness is neurosis.

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

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.

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.

Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.

Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.

That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da man.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if you hear an answer.

I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment.

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

The neuroses parody the virtues.

And I think for me theres a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.

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

The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses have the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into the situation of his accident, a situation from which he wakes up in another fright.

I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.

...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.

I've done it with all my films. I always keep an eye on the first time I show it because... I don't know. Neurosis.

The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.

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.

In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.

Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle everyday? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything anther than galloping neurosis?

I go to an analyst not because I need to but because I choose to and maybe that's the difference. I don't think I have any huge neurosis, but I have questions for which I seek if not answers at least a guidance toward the answers.

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will claim us and exact its dues. If we go to that realm consciously, it is by our inner work: our prayers, meditations, dream work, ceremonies, and Active Imagination. If we try to ignore the inner world, as most of us do, the unconscious will find its way into our lives through pathology: our psychosomatic symptoms, compulsions, depressions, and neuroses.

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.