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The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. -- Alfred Adler
I'm very loyal. Sociable to a certain extent. Neurotic, too. -- Robin Lord Taylor
And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it. -- Thom Yorke
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. -- Robert A. Heinlein
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. -- Jerome Lawrence
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. -- Alfred Adler
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes. -- Alfred Adler
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. -- Thomas Szasz
Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable. -- Carl Rogers
Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long. -- Mignon McLaughlin
[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself. -- Karen Horney
Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law. -- Karl A. Menninger
Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I have all my ex-girlfriends lumped into one big girlfriend I called M.A.N.D.Y.: My, Another Neurotic Disappointment? Yes. -- Dana Gould
Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty. -- Paul Tillich
You can party, but I better not catch you drunk. (Wulf) (Chris rolled his eyes, then bent down to said to Cassandra's stomach...) Be wise, little guy, stay in there where Lord King Neurotic can't kill all your fun. (Chris) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed. -- Tim Robbins
I'm pretty neurotic. -- Paul Wesley
Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy. -- Connie Willis
The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions. -- Thomas Szasz
I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do. -- Ralph Fiennes
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone. -- Mignon McLaughlin
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. -- Mignon McLaughlin
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. -- Marcel Proust
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. -- Marlon Brando
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. -- Sylvia Plath
I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part. -- Kirstie Alley
I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting. -- Lake Bell
Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time. -- Phil Donahue
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull. -- Louis Auchincloss
I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me. -- Laura Marling
I'm very neurotic about shaving. I shave first thing in the morning before a shoot, and if I have dinner that night, I have to shave again. -- Chrissy Teigen
My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. -- Martha Beck
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
All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal. -- Deborah Kerr
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. -- Anatole France
Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage? -- Jason Isaacs
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. -- Sigmund Freud
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. -- Marcel Proust
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. -- Sylvia Plath
A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight. -- Mignon McLaughlin
The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. -- Georges Bataille
This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people. -- Yoko Ono
You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn't outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic. -- Christoph Waltz
Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct. -- Marianne Williamson
My friends once told me I remind them of the main character from the American comedy series 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I thought they must mean a sunny, affable girl-next-door, but instead I was confronted with Larry David! Crabby, moody, perversely neurotic Larry David. And the thing is, my friends were right. -- Anushka Sharma
I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough. -- Russell Smith
I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will. -- Helen Garner
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. -- Sigmund Freud
I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic. -- Megan Fox
All currency is neurotic currency. -- Norman O. Brown
I am neurotic, and I'm a worrier. -- Charlie Brooker
Every neurotic is partly in the right. -- Alfred Adler
It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic. -- Herb Kelleher
It's neurotic fat women who hate me--they're stupid -- Kate Moss
I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! -- Gwen Stefani
The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I was neurotic and weird from an early age. -- Joanne Froggatt
I'm wired to be neurotic and loud and high-strung. -- Jen Kirkman
I've become a guy who's like a complaining, whining neurotic. -- Billy Corgan
I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point. -- Len Wein
The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. -- Mignon McLaughlin
During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid. -- David Sylvian
A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up. -- Mason Cooley
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive. -- Susie Bright
Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure. -- G. Bruce Boyer
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface. -- Stephen Sondheim
I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs. -- Tamsin Egerton
Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke. -- Mignon McLaughlin
There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Healthy thinking is a habit, just like neurotic thinking is a habit. -- Wayne Dyer
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires. -- Anais Nin
I guess I can be a little neurotic sometimes, but can't everybody? -- Rebecca Romijn
One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic. -- Robert Musil
Stay neurotic. Stay frustrated. Stay emotional. Stay excited. Your life is happening. -- Erin Foster
The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which. -- Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation. -- Renata Adler
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Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ? -- Denis de Rougemont
I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway. -- Ruth Rendell
I'm quite neurotic, usually. But when it comes to work, I become extremely focused. -- Julie Delpy
Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic. -- Sonja Lyubomirsky
I'm neurotic. I complain all the time. I'm a workaholic. And I'm never satisfied. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius. -- Marc Maron
I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image. -- Kimora Lee Simmons
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language. -- Terence McKenna
I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me. -- Len Wein
So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so. -- Francesca Annis
It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it. -- Albert Einstein
That's one thing I get neurotic about: I need my soup to be crazy hot. -- Chrissy Teigen
I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar. -- A.S. Neill
Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either. -- Mignon McLaughlin
The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests. -- Ayn Rand
An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art -- Lee Simonson
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No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself. -- Sigmund Freud
Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another. -- Karen Horney
You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems. -- David Lee Roth
A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood. -- Laura Schlessinger
A lot of people say I always play neurotic women. Well, who doesn't play neurotic women? -- Geraldine Page
I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you? -- Tom Baker
The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about. -- Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another. -- Jonathan Lethem
The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common. -- Truman Capote
The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up. -- Judith Viorst
Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution? -- Rita Mae Brown
There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes. -- George Bernard Shaw
(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.) -- Jane Jacobs
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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

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